THE first of his get to attract the attention of the 

 country was Little Brown Jug, and his history 

 is so unique I think it well deserves to be 

 given here. In 1874, Mr. O. N. Fry, of Mooresville, 

 Tenn., was the owner of Gibson's Tom Hal, who was 

 making the season at $5 by the insurance, and if, 

 when the colt was old enough to wean, it did not 

 show the saddle gaits no fee whatever was charged. 

 A neighbor of Mr. Fry then owned a mare named 

 Lizzie, by John Netherland, a pacing-bred horse. Mr. 

 Fry happened to meet the owner of Lizzie one day 

 and suggested to him the advisability of breeding Liz- 

 zie to Tom Hal; but the owner of Lizzie demurred, 

 saying he could raise a mule, and that when the mule 

 was a year old he could sell it for $50, which was 

 much better than he could do raising colts. Finally, 

 Mr. Fry proposed that if he would breed to Tom Hal 

 he would pay him $50 for the colt when it was a year 

 old, if sound and all right. This proposition was ac- 

 cepted, and one day the next year the man appeared 

 at Mr. Fry's place leading a colt so thin that he would 

 hardly make a shadow, and in addition to apparently 

 being half starved, he was covered with lice, which 

 had eaten his mane and tail and nearly finished what 

 little vitality was in his body. This colt was Little 

 Brown Jug, which this man had brought to Mr. Fry 

 pursuant to their contract, as he claimed, and de- 

 manded the $50. When Mr. Fry saw the colt he re- 

 fused to receive him, and told the man he did not want 

 such a looking colt upon his place. The man said he 

 had no money and had relied upon the promised $50 



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