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purpose. When I took this mare in hand she was considered a 

 rank puller. I soon got her out of that notion by using a hu- 

 mane bit, and she proved to have one of the most sensitive and 

 best of mouths, and I could play any tune on it I wished with 

 the reins, just as a harper would play the harp with the strings. 



Eosa. A beautiful sorrel, without white, half-thorougbred 

 mare was another of my driving horses at the Essex Stock 

 Farm. She was put into my hands as being somewhat tricky 

 and unsafe, but proved with me a most excellent mare and 

 safe. I could talk her into anything, even to standing still on 

 the streets of Windsor, Ont., while a troop of elephants be- 

 longing to Barnum's show passed by. With this mare I gave 

 a young man the surprise of his life who thought he had a fast 

 one, by driving completely around him within less than a mile 

 on the road. 



Roan Prince. A roan gelding of the Royal George stock 

 of Canada, was a very easy and pleasant roadster for a thirty 

 to fifty -mile drive. 



Kittie Maxwell. Gray mare, by Informer, son of Jay 

 Gould, by Hambletonian, was about as handy stepper and easy 

 mover as I ever drove, but had been badly handled before I 

 bought her, and was considered very unsafe, requiring much 

 watching, still I never had an accident with her. 



Sorrel Bill. Sorrel gelding, breeding unknown ; still it 

 must have been good, as he had the " ear marks " of a well-bred 

 one. An extra good buggy and livery horse. I used him in my 

 livery business in Detroit. A great favorite with my lady 

 customers. 



Maggie Dimon. A jet black mare, star, snip, and one white 

 foot behind, extra well-bred. Took her to Indiana as a brood 

 mare. The dam of Maud Bayard by General Bayard, son of 

 ■ Bayard, by Pilot, Jr., the sire of the dam of Maud S, 2.08f . 



Minnie Morgan. Seal brown mare with tan muzzle, no 

 white, a veritable old-fashioned K E. Morgan. I took her to 

 Indiana with me for a brood mare and kept her seven years ; 

 she was a very good mother and grew her colts very fast ; was 



