Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16

high-blooded Southern mare and there
it ends. We have always maintained that
this Kentucky mare idea was a fraud,
and ne are gldd TO be able TO prore il so By
Mr.. Ferguson himself.n
This logic is painfully like that of the
small boy who read the original and in
structive essay on pins. "Pins," read Mr..
Wallace's young prototype, in descant-
ing upon their numerous merits-"Pins
have likewise saved the lives of "A great
many good people, 'HowY' queried
his ~astonishcd teacher. "Why, by not
swallerin en-
But little articles of this kind will no
longer be necessary. Having now cap
tured the direct male line of Flora's ped
igree straight to Messenger, they can
afford to give up these collateral lines to
other enterprising families; that is, if
they are to ne left in undisturbed posses
sion of the main line, which we regret to
say they are not. The method of this
capture is as follows: Mr.. l.. NJ. Jones
of Lairdsville, n. Y, contributes to
Wallace's MoHthIy for June last an article
in the main very creditable, in which oc-
ours the following paragraph:
sin 1921 Julius Watkins moved with
his family from Connecticut to Whites
town, Oneida Co., y. Y, bringing with
him a stallion called Highlander. He is
described as a very high-headed, stylish
bay horse. about u - hands high. lie
had been locked and pricked in the style
of fifty years ago. | am unable to estab-
liSh his pedigree to a certainty but all the
old men agree in saying he was sired by
a son OF imported Messenger. Barnes
Davis, who bred Edwin Forrest, claims
that Mr.. Watkins told him the same
thing, and as Mr.. Watkins was vice-pres-
ident of the Oneida Co. Agricultural So
ciety about the time Edwin Forrest was
raised, Mr.. Davis had a chance to know
nearly to Il certainty. There is nc doubt,
| suppose. but he was out of Nancy
Dawson. Il daughter of imp. Highlander.
This horse. known as Watkins Old High
lander. lived until about 1880, when Il leg
was broken by "A kick and he had to be
destroyed"
On the face of it. the information
would be more satisfying if Mr.. Jones
had given us the names and addresses of
''all the old mem who agree" so har-
%moniously to this pretty fiction, and still
more so if he had let them speak for
themselves. We doubt if all the old men
do actually agree in this matter: at least
it does seem as if Mr.. Geo. Benedict of
Verona in that (Oneida) county ought to
be old enough to be classcd among them !:
also the gentlemen whom he mentions in
the following letters for we are so fully
persuaded that living men can make their
own statements better than we can for
them. that we will here give two letters
received from Mr.. Benedict in this mat
ter over Il year ago. Mr.. Benedict, IA
nous horse Pathfinder by Black Hawk
was from Il dam by Watkins Highlander,
and it would seem that he ought to know
what he is writing about. Respecting
his statement as to the sire of Flora
Temple, it is fair to say that, so far as
appears, the Loomises who owned both
horses claimed that she was got by One
Eyed Hunter. instead of Bogus Hunter.
and many horsemen in that region, in
Guiding Mr.. Jones. whose article we are
criticising, believe such to be the fact: