Tue Horse. 15 
A distinguished judge of horses in Vermont, quoted by Randall 
in his Introduction to Youatt on the Horse, says: 
“They [the Morgans] are good for an hour’s drive—for short 
stages. They are good to run around town with. They are 
good in the light pleasure-wagon—prompt, lively (not spirited), 
and ‘trappy.’ There is no question among those who have 
had fair opportunities of comparing the Morgans with horses 
of purer blood and descended from different stocks, in regard to 
the relative position of the Morgan. He is, as he exists at the 
present day, inferior in size, speed, and bottom—in fact, in all 
those qualities necessary to the performance of ‘great deeds’ 
SULRMAN MORGAN. 
on the road or the farm, to the descendants of Messenger, Du- 
roc, imported Magnum Bonum, and many other horses of de- 
served celebrity.” 
Sherman Morgan, whose portrait we are permitted to copy 
from Linsley’s “‘Morgan Horse,” was foaled in 1835, the prop- 
erty of Moses Cook, of Campton, N. H. Sired by Sherman, g 
sire, Justin Morgan. The pedigree of the darf not fully estab- 
lished, but conceded to have been a very fine animal, and said to 
