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mare by Winthrop Messenger. Her name was Boston 
Girl. The Drews, as might be presumed from this 
origin, are fine, spirited, hardy horses, with much 
style and dash, and very intelligent. One of them, a 
handsome bay stallion called Dirigo (whose dam was 
nearly thoroughbred), used to be driven without bit or 
rein through the town where his owner lived. Guided 
by the voice and whip of his driver, the horse would 
speed down the main street at a 2.40 gait, stop, turn 
around, and do whatever was required of him. 
One of the best roadsters ever known in New Eng- 
land is Bay Fearnaught, whose sire was a Fearnaught 
and whose dam was a Drew, so that in him these two 
hardy and courageous strains are united. His owner, 
Mr. David Nevins, once drove Bay Fearnaught from 
South Framingham to the Somerset Club in Beacon 
street, Boston, a distance of twenty-two miles or more, 
in one hour and twenty-eight minutes. The horse 
was driven to a sleigh containing two men, and the 
going was very good. Reckoning the distance at 
twenty-two miles exactly, he maintained a speed of 
just fifteen miles an hour. Bay Fearnaught has 
trotted a mile to road wagon in 2.35, and two miles 
to a road wagon (wagon and driver weighing three 
hundred pounds) in 5.16. This horse is now twenty- 
three years old, and his owner reports him as being 
“sound as a bullet, and still able and willing to go 
fast.” 
Given a roadster such as I have described, and a 
light, open wagon fitted with a stout spring, with 
lamps, and possibly with a small break; given also a 
sympathetic companion and a mackintosh, —and, if 
you like, we will throw in a dog: thus provided, and 
