36 BREEDING AND REARING OF 



characteristics. After crossing the Cumberland river 

 we moved on to the neighborhood of Hopkinsville, 

 Ky., where we spent the Sabbath. 



On Monday morning we made our first sale. We 

 made it a rule not to travel or trade on the Lord's day. 

 We sold a very fine four-year-old jack that I had 

 raised, called Beauregard, to a company of four nice 

 gentlemen who paid me nine hundred dollars cash. 

 He was a good jennet jack and was sired by an im- 

 ported jack called Prince Napoleon, that was imported 

 by General Edney, of North Carolina, while consul, 

 during President Polk's administration. The dam of 

 this jack was a premium jennet for a half interest in 

 which I gave my brother. General J. M. Knight, $250. 

 She was sired by my jennet jack Maringo Mammoth. 

 Beauregard made quite a character as a fine breeder, 

 for both mares and jennets, around Hopkinsville, Ky. 



My next sale was between Hopkinsville and Prince- 

 ton, Ky. I sold a half-interest in a four-year-old jack, 

 fifteen hands high, a dapple gray, to Mr. Clardy, who 

 formerly lived in Bedford County, Tennessee, and 

 had made quite a reputation for handling good stock, 

 especially the saddle stallions. He reared the noted 

 horse, Blue John, that was so famous for producing 

 that class of stock. This horse was taken by the Fed- 

 eral soldiers during the Civil War into Indiana and 

 was subsequently brought back to Tennessee, where 

 he made his mark. Mr. Clardy gave me $400 for one- 

 half interest in this jack and was to keep him five years 

 and be at all expenses for that period, except that I 

 was to pay one-half of the United States government 

 tax ($10), and for half of a ten-dollar show bridle. 

 I also fanned Mr. Clardy one of my fine jennets, 



