Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-09

quite an accomplished horsewoman, and |
takes much interest In our efforts to trace
this mare. She saids
81 understand that Warner Cook got |
the mare Of johnson, who had her of Ru-
fus Rising. I never heard of Balcom's
having her. Have always understood
that Rising went to Vermont and traded
and got her. She was not an old mare
when we first had her. They drew lum
Der with her. She could not have been
over 10. l drove her good many times.
She never went lame, not to notice, when
1 drove her. She was pretty high-lifed
mare went pretty we'll. 1 could not tell
from my own observation If she was
hipped; do not know what that is; but
it seems to me that 1 heard them say
something about her being hipped. She
was so afraid of buffalo that we could
not carry one with any comfort. She
was pretty Whitewater than she was
gray-when l first knew her. l knew
her before we went up to the other place;
she was here on this place a good deal
before we moved up there in October,
1910. l think we had her here more than
year before that. know we had her
here one summer at least before that, for
: 1 remember driving her to Hague with
my mother, and we had buffalo in the
wagon, and the mare went like perfect
: storm. could not hold her. There was
man behind us, and l got him to drive
the mare and drove his horse.''
On our way up here we called on Mr..
William G. Baldwin. This courteous
gentleman, himself one of the leading
horsemen of I'll, many years ago at
tempted to trace this mare, and talked
with Rufus Rising about the matter. He
learned from Mr. Rising that he got the
mare in Vermont. He also learned that
she passed through the hands of George
johnson, Warner Cook, w. II. Cook and
George c. Weed to j. w. Holcomb; in
other words, he traced her through all
the hands that she actually passed
through after Rising got her; he did not
! find that any Balcom ever had her. His
work in the matter was embodied in an
article in Wallace's Monthly. Mr.. Bald
win told us that although he was familiar
with the mare and had frequently de-
scribed her, he was utterly unable to say
whether she was hipped or not; she was
spawned, and whether her peculiar car
riage behind resulted from that or from
her being hipped he could not tell. But
u he said that John A. Pinchin would
know, as he was very observing of such
things and had the best of memories and
; what he said we could rely on. Mr..
. Weed also told us that what Mr.. Pinchin
= said about it would be reliable. Mr.. Bald
win also told us that he had read Leland s
statement and had not particle of doubt
. but that it was correct, and that the mare
: Leland traded to Rising was the dam of
!, Ethan Allen. No person could make up
= story that would fit so perfectly all the
y known facts.
. As we were leaving Mr.. Pinchin in the
morning he told us that if anybody had
any doubt about George Johnson's hav-
a ing sold that mare to Warner Cook to tell
them to 60 and ask Hoyt johnson; for
! Hoyt johnson, and, he believed, his wife,
i. too, saw the mare delivered and the money
paid. So, after taking leave of Mrs. Cook
we drove up the somewhat unfrequented
, road to New Hague. Here we found
+, our two old friends, Hoyt johnson and
:. Rebecca, his wife, now we'll started or
the seventh decade of their welded life
q but still we'll and hearty. Two chubby
l little rogues, FIVE and six years old, the
h children of deceased daughter, that
u have come to them since our last visit
~ make up their family. Our interview was
o by the kitchen fire and both Mr.. ant
h Mrs. johnson took an active part in the
y conversation, joining in nearly all the
% statements took down, which are as fol
/: lows:
b Hoyt johnson says that he was at hi.
\ brother Georges place in the fall of 1888
IS Mrs. J) 1t was quite late in the fall
,r about this time. Perry, born in August
IS was quite little baby-say two months
~ old. (Both) We lived close together
!: the horses run right in the pasture il
ID front of our house. George johnson
1t lived on the place where Samuel Acker
i Is man now lives, and we lived in littl
b. house close by. (He) Warner Cool
,r paid my brother, George, S65 and Dor
III rowed bride and saddle of George an,
=, put the saddle on the mare and said t.
her, 81 will try you with two hundred
is pounds" 1 stood right by; he got on t.
d, her and rode her away. l did not hea
70 the bargain made; it seemed to have beel
he made before, perhaps that forenoon
r; The mare was then sound. Nothing eve
n allied her as far as l knew while my broth
= er had her.
lie Mrs. johnson remembers the circum
Il stances; says it was right before thei