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-allowed anybody else to jog or drive this horse. There was 

 nothing unkind about Earns, or any disposition to be ngly, 

 but he was about the best feeling horse I ever saw, and 

 would in play do things that might have caused accidents 

 with an inexperienced man having hold of the reins. I 

 rememlber that one day during the winter I took Dave 

 Hosmei, the driver of Abdallah Boy and other trotters, out 

 to ride with me. Earns saw something in the road, and 

 made a dart to one side so suddenly that he landed Dave 

 high aid dry in a snow bank. When Hosmer picked him- 

 self up he said he did not wonder at that horse trotting in 

 "2:14 after the move he had just made. I had a rule with 

 the boTS that whenever we went to hitch or unhitch Earns, 

 one of them should always take Mm by the head, and the 

 other (ne unhook one side of the harness, while I looked 

 after tie other. One day I drove him into the yard on re- 

 turning from exercise, and found Mr. Crawford and some 

 friendf of mine there. I sat in the wagon chatting with 

 them vhile waiting for the boys to come out of the stall. 

 Only yne boy appeared, and he started to unhitch Earns. 

 I said to take the horse by the head and wait for the other 

 "boy, ?rhich he did. At this moment, something passed 

 throigh the yard that Earns noticed, and he at once made 

 :a dar, and tried to bolt. I had hold of the reins, and the 

 boy lad him by the head. I have often seen children play 

 " craik the whip " at school, but it was not a circumstance 

 to tie way Earns dashed the groom and myself about that 

 yard Fortunately, he did not hurt himself, or get away. 

 I ne^er saw another horse that could make such lightning- 

 likemoves. 



n the spring, when the snow left the ground, I hitched 

 Bans in double harness with Calmar and gave him all his ex- 

 ercse in that manner, thinking it safer than to drive him sin- 

 gle The season was a late one, and I did not get to do much 

 ■onthe track before the first of May. Having no engagements 

 fo' Earns I began very moderately, working him to a skel- 

 <et)n wagon, and gave him a great many miles in from 



