200 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
that of Flying Eaton and of Shepherd F. Knapp, was 
extremely high. 
Troublesome belonged for many years to “Squire” 
Abner Toothaker, a prominent man in the little village 
of Rangeley, at the head of Rangeley Lake, in the 
backwoods. In those days Rangeley was at least fifty 
miles from the railroad, and, as the Squire’s business 
often took him far from home, it was necessary that 
he should have good roadsters. More than once he 
drove from Bangor to Phillips (a village twenty-one 
miles “out” from the lake) in one day, although the 
distance is ninety miles; and there was a standing 
offer on his part to drive Troublesome one hundred 
miles between sunrise and sundown, for a bet of one 
thousand dollars. 
Squire Toothaker was a hard-visaged old gentleman, 
who always sat a little sideways in his carriage, and 
clucked viciously to his horse out of the corner of 
his mouth. Once he drove Troublesome to a sleigh 
seventy-six miles in one short day, besides racing him 
three or four additional miles against horses which he 
encountered at a village en route. On another occa- 
sion he drove from Greenvale to Phillips, a distance 
of eighteen miles, in one hour. I have traversed this 
road several times: it is rough and hilly, and, though 
it descends for perhaps two thirds of the way, there 
are several long, steep hills to ascend. IJ know that it 
takes a good horse to cover this road without distress 
in two hours. But Troublesome did it in one hour. 
Troublesome had a son called Wild Tiger, who also 
was out of a Morgan dam. The name is an ambitious 
one, but the horse seems to have deserved it. He 
too was a bay horse, with four white feet, and a dash 
