274 A WILD HORSE. 



THOUD, Esq. resided, and on parting with me he repeated what he had 

 many times said before, that he never had seen so serviceable a creature as 

 Barro. 



If I recollect rightly, I gave a short verbal account of this journey, 

 and of the good quaUties of my horse, to my learned friend J. Skinner, 

 Esq. of Baltimore, who I beUeve has noticed them in his excellent Sport- 

 ing Magazine. We agreed that the importation of horses of this kind 

 from the Western Prairies might improve our breeds generally ; and, 

 judging from those which I have seen, I am inclined to think that some 

 of them may prove fit for the course. A few days after reaching Hender- 

 son, I parted with Barro, not without regret, for a hundred and twenty 

 dollars. 



