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as good as a three-year-old iron-gray mare mule I had 

 bartered for, and she should be the sample. She was 

 fifteen hands high and smooth. Thinking I could sell 

 nine three-year-olds for more than I could ten two- 

 year-olds, I agreed to go and see the mules. We had 

 to travel nine miles obliquely from our main route 

 home. We took the jack and the sample mule and 

 spent the night. We had no special trouble in agree- 

 ing about the selection of the mules. The company 

 that wanted my jack, wished to exhibit him at the 

 state fair in Illinois. The party assisted me in getting 

 the stock to my camp. 



We then went the direct route to Hopkinsville, Ky. 

 Here we sold out our surplus stock to the party who 

 had bought Beauregard, as we were going to Illinois. 

 In bartering the jack, Harry of the West, we got 

 about twelve hundred and fifty dollars for him. I now 

 desire to refer very kindly to my venerable friend, 

 the late Rev. Mr. Woolard, of Mulberry Grove, Bond 

 County, Illinois. He was originally from Maury 

 County, Tennessee, and had settled in Illinois at an 

 early date. He rendered me valuable service while 

 there. 



I was nine weeks making this trip, and bartered 

 and sold together about ten thousand dollars' worth of 

 jacks and jennets that I could not have sold at home 

 for one thousand dollars cash, owing to the ravages 

 of war. I had left on my farm quite a number of 

 jacks and jennets for which there was no demand 

 in my section of country, consequently after having 

 made that long and tedious journey to Illinois, I had 

 necessarily to hunt other localities that had not suf- 

 fered so much from the destruction of the armies. 



