The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-18

lengthy COnIOvcISy 0Cs UC.s bsO tnbt uc
does not intend To berate any breed Of horses,
vert,sing, &c. Now, M. g., If yOS are Meth.
or bersting or Boosting, will you just tell as
the object Of your twocolumn article Of last
week? 1t seems to US that II savOrs strongly
of "brag," favored with all the "berate" at
your command. Mr.. q. certainly fails TO meet
and answer any of our statements as to prices
paid for Clydesdnles, but doubts the truth of
Them and thinks that statements of horse
dealers should be carefully considered, while
at the sameitime he quotes them rs his author.
ity. We submit that such defense Of his pc.
s,tion is, to say the least, weak and cowardly,
Mr.. g., you may write untruths and sign your
name 10 them, If you choose, but for our part
the plain truth answers our purpose. We
stated that the highest prices paid for twoyear
old geldings IN this vicinity had been paid for
Clydes; also that the highest price Mr.. Heine.
man has ever paid for a gelding in this vicini.
ty was for Clydesdale. These statements are
true. Mr.. G.. mentions the sale of Mr.. Iodg-
sons colts and says Mr.. Heineman bought
them, paying the highest price eDer paid for n
lot. Now, the truth is, Mr.. Heneman never
owned n HAIR on one of them! They were
purchased by Mr.. Snyder. And as this sale
has been mentioned, we will state that one Of
the pesky Clydesdalcs got into that lot. As
| MI. DUyucI ulu ubb SV uoiIlC Will lndt lpl,
they were numbered, billed and tagged, and
this Clydesdae was sent east, (whcrc Clydes
don't sell,') marked at thirty-fve dollars
above the average of the lott Now if Mr. G..
can extract any consolation from that sale he
| Is welcome to II. He lntimates that among
his customers is one who owns Clydcsdale
stallion and does not consider Inn good
enough TO breed to his Norman mares There
IS nothing strange about that. Many of our
customers own crate stations, just as this man
does. and don't use them themselves. Mr. G.
would have us think that this party takes
great pains to travel his mare from Ottawa to
his place, while the truth Is, he owns farm
near Mr.. G.'s place, and We presume Mr. G.
does by HIM as he does by Others i. G., takes
his horse to their farm once week. But the
most wonderful thing OF all Is that Merry
Old England" Is waking up. Mr.. G. must
have been enjoying Rip Van Wrinkle" nap,
and on awakening lmagines that, like him, all
the world has been asleep. Hence he rumma.
ges around among the musty files of ancient
horse literature and finds this fresh prOductt0n,
giving account of Mr.. Dickinson's buying q
Norman horse IN 1856 tcentyfre years ago,
and this letter written shortly after. Why,
man Hon. John 4. Dennison, to whom this
letter was written, died in March 1873, over
eight years ago. and tins same old letter has
Deeh punished IN every importers Catalogue
since catalogues have been printed. We have
always been told that our Norman horses have
an ancient and arstocratic origin, and so II
seems of their literature, and doubtless this
and other articles, some of even earlier date
will be carefully handed down to posterlty and
preserved for future reference. But seriously
man who will copy and have printed articles
as old as these, thinking that they will pass
for information of the day, either displays a
amentable amount of ignorance on his own
part or foolishly prcsumes on the ignorance of
the public, and in either case writes himself
down an ass What we want to know is, will
Clydesdales sell today, or have they sold with
in the past year or two? If any one has doubts
about that, let them try to buy some Clyde fill |
lies Of Messrs. Degen, Gedney, Luellen, or
Condor, and these doubts will vanish
w. E. PRICHARD