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nine years. He was shipped to the United States on 

 a saiHng vessel, there being no large ocean steamers 

 at that time. As was the custom then in shipping 

 jacks, he was placed on a swing, and was so heavy 

 that he was cut under the arms by the swing and the 

 continual rocking of the vessel, which caused a run- 

 ning sore perhaps as long as he lived. I am glad 

 to say the facilities for shipping stock have greatly 

 improved since that day. Imported Mammoth did 

 business at $100 per jennet, and his services were re- 

 munerative to his owners. 



I have had a most excellent artist. Professor A. C. 

 Webb, of Nashville, Tenn., to make a drawing of 

 Maringo Mammoth from memory. I wanted my 

 stock friends to see a model of a native jack, that had 

 been worth perhaps $100,000 to Tennessee— he and 

 his descendants. I have succeeded in procuring cuts 

 of a number of imported jacks of different species, 

 from several countries, and thought it would be well 

 to have a cut of an extra good native jack to show 

 in my book, and hope I have succeeded in it. Several 

 half-brothers of Maringo Mammoth were introduced 

 into this state, at a later date, which were great acces- 

 sions to the jack and jennet stock of this part of the 

 country. L. W. Knight, M.D. 



Dr. L. W. Knight, Nashville, Tenn.: 



My Dear Father: At your request I cheerfully 

 submit a very brief sketch of my trip to Europe in 

 search of jacks and jennets of such quality as to 

 improve our native stock. My brother, W. E. Knight, 

 having been three times for the same purpose, was 

 somewhat satiated with travel or intimidated by storms 

 and floods, having encountered both, and insisted that 



