74 THE MORGAN HORSE. 



play to every muscle, once seen by any person having a taste 

 for a fine horse could never be forgotten. In boldness and 

 gracefulness of style he was considered incomparable in his 

 day, and when he appeared on the show-grounds at Louisville, 

 Ky., at the State Fair in 1853, he met with a cordial welcome 

 and was greeted on entering the exhibition ring with such 

 eagerness and applause that told full plainly that his form and 

 style of action were new to the Kentuckians, and was, never- 

 theless, appreciated by the thousands of strangers before whom 

 he was moving. 



" It may be proper to state here that this horse was taken 

 from Yermont to Dayton, Ohio, in a box car, without any stop 

 for rest. The fair being over he went directly to Detroit, ar- 

 riving there after the commencement of their fair. From 

 Detroit he went directly to Louisville," where he arrived late at 

 night previous to the last day of their fair. "When brought 

 into the ring of stallions the next morning, the blue ribbon — 

 the highest prize — had just been tied on a beautiful dapple 

 gray of the Gray Eagle stock, but when Green Mountain, 

 then nineteen years old, pranced by the grand stand, the mul- 

 titude immediately shouted, ' Take it off ! Take it off.' It was, 

 accordingly, transferred to Green Mountain." 



As before stated, the Morgans are a general purpose breed. 

 This is most emphatically true. In New England we find 

 them doing the work on the farms, doing livery business, used 

 as family horses, and they are much sought after as roadsters 

 and gentlemen's drivers. Before the advent of railroads, when 

 traveling was all done by horse power, we find some of the 

 best and most durable horse teams in the land composed of 

 these same little Morgans. 



Mr. Lindsley says: "For stage purposes their equal for 

 hilly countries has never been found. As a case in point I will 

 state an old-time incident, occurring some fifty years since. A 

 party of gentlemen made a trip to the White Mountains. 

 After having made the customary examinations they arrived 

 late one night at the Franconia ' Notch House.' Here they 



