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in the opposite direction ; but as his lights were burn- 
ing brightly, and the highway was a broad one, he 
thought nothing of it. Suddenly, however, before he 
could stop her, his steed made a violent jump to the 
left, crossing the road, and barely had she done so, 
when the approaching wagon, driven, as it appeared, 
by a drunken man, dashed by in the track which the 
Doctor’s buggy had just left. The intelligent mare 
had waited till the last moment, thinking that the 
vehicle which she heard, would keep to the right, as 
it should have done; and then, foreseeing that a 
collision was otherwise inevitable, she had sprung out 
of the path of danger. 
I have sketched in a preceding chapter the most 
speedy and highly finished branch of the Morgan 
stock, which is that of the Lamberts, descended, 
through Ethan Allen, from Vermont Blackhawk. 
Vermont Blackhawk had also a son called Vermont 
Hero, and Vermont Hero was the sire of General 
Knox? (whose name I have mentioned), a famous 
trotting stallion, and the founder of a subsidiary 
roadster family. This animal had every excellence 
except that of beauty. He was a stout, short-legged 
black horse, about fifteen hands high, with a good 
plain head. The Knox horses bear a wonderful fam- 
ily resemblance, and they are noted for their courage, 
endurance, docility, and intelligence. No branch of 
the Morgan family is more serviceable or more ami- 
able than this one, and, with the possible exception 
of the Lamberts, none is more speedy. 
1 His dam was by Searcher, « half-bred horse descended from 
Diomed, and his second dam was also of Diomed blood. Searcher’s 
dam was a Morgan. General Knox was therefore a combination of 
Morgan and thoroughbred. 
