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dent Polk's administration. He was a very high- 

 styled jack, but was rather light of bone and body. 



I think I have given a general, though imperfect, 

 history of the jack stock from soon after the Revolu- 

 tionary War down to the late Civil War. Now it is 

 my purpose to give a history of all the importations 

 since that war. The first importation was made by 

 the late A. C. Franklin and Major Tul. Craig, of Sum- 

 ner County, Tennessee, in about 1867 or 1868. They 

 brought over a very handsome lot of Catalonian jacks. 

 Among some of the most noted were Rifle and Laber- 

 dale. They were taken to West Tennessee and greatly 

 improved the jack stock of that section. Midnight 

 and Starlight were sold to M. H. Mays, of Maury 

 County. They were individually good ones. 



The jack Mr. Franklin reserved from the importa- 

 tion for his own breeding was Black Forrest. He 

 proved to be a very popular breeder. Among the 

 many fine jacks that he sired was Ben Franklin, of 

 which I have already given an account. 



Mr. Lyle, of Kentucky, about the year 1882 im- 

 ported Andalusians from about Seville. One of his 

 most noted animals, Abran, sold to W. L. Caldwell, 

 of Danville, Ky., sired Major George Tarkington's 

 premium jennet, that is about fifteen and one-half 

 hands high, Abran being only about fourteen hands. 



Messrs. Leonard Bros., of Mt. Leonard, Mo. (Hon- 

 orable Chas. E. was a member of the firm), imported 

 in 1882 a lot of Andalusians, purchased in and around 

 Cordova and Seville. Some of these jacks were large, 

 over fifteen hands high. A jennet by one of them, at 

 the dispersion sale of our late lamented treasurer, 

 Major Gentry, sold for $750. Other jennets, at the 



