60 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
he began to boast of the wonderful speed at which 
the horse had carried liim, and thereafter the animal 
was taken out, harnessed to a buggy, on Saturday 
afternoons and like occasions, for a brush on the 
road with the fast trotters of the neighborhood, all 
ot whom he outstripped. Within a few weeks the 
Dutchman’s son, who had been brought up in this 
country, procured an old sulky, and put the milk- 
wagon steed in some sort of training. In two 
months’ time they appeared at a track, engaged ina 
race with veteran drivers and horses of established 
reputation, and beat them all in three straight heats, 
—a wonderful achievement for a green trotter and 
jockey, and an immense surprise to the professional 
persons who had jeered at the uncouth appearance 
of the newcomers. 
This case bears out Dr: Holmes’s illustration of 
the milk-cart; nor is the other example that he sug- 
gests without foundation in fact. Some years ago, a 
baker’s mare in Boston, after delivering her rolls and 
brown bread in the city one day as usual, was driven 
to Saugus, a distance of about eight miles, and started 
in a match race at the track there. In the exuber- 
ance of her spirits she ran away in the first heat, 
and went around the course once or twice before she 
could be stopped. But being allowed to start again, 
notwithstanding this irregularity, she won the race, 
and finished her day’s work by bringing the baker 
back to Boston, and beating all the horses that en- 
gaged with her on the road home. 
It must not be supposed, however, that these ani- 
mals were entirely of plebeian origin. The milk- 
man’s horse had a dash of thoroughbred in his 
