138 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
giving her two quarts of oats. I then drove twelve 
miles, and stopped again in a patch of woods for two 
hours. The mare had some hay, procured of a neigh- 
boring farmer, with three quarts of oats, and was well 
groomed, Starting again at about four o’clock, I drove 
to Salem, arriving there soon after six, the distance 
being about fifteen or sixteen miles. The horse 
seemed perfectly fresh, but as my three days would 
not be up till eleven p. m. (inasmuch as I started at 
eleven a. M. on the first day), I concluded to stop for 
dinner. The mare was put into a stable and rubbed 
down. Her legs were’ bandaged, and she was pro- 
vided with some hay and two or three quarts of oats, 
which she ate greedily. At seven thirty she was har- 
nessed again, and came up to Boston as readily as if 
she were out for the first time that day. Her eye was 
perfectly bright when I arrived, she exhibited no 
sign of fatigue, and would doubtless have been good 
for twenty miles more.” 
This was a creditable performance to have been 
done so easily, especially as the road from Portsmouth 
is flat and sandy. A moderately hilly road is much 
less fatiguing. The same filly, it may be added, when 
but three years old, made seventy miles in a day of 
twelve hours, drawing a skeleton wagon. Such a 
journey would have ruined most young horses, but 
the next morning, when turned out to pasture, she 
threw up her heels, as sound and lively as any colt 
in the lot. 
Another Morgan mare,? of similar appearance, being 
black, and “a compactly built, nervy, wiry animal of 
the steel and whalebone sort,” is credited with going 
1 The property of Mr. Farnum, of Waltham, Massachusetts. 
