Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-08
CHOICE CANADIAN HORSES.

Dear Sir In answer to your inquiry
for Canadian PAGER, to breed from
there is none in this neighborhood. Such
horses are very seldom found in this
district because farmers are aversd to
PAGERS as stations and the riding
inhabitant are mostly stifi-rumped
Englishmen, who delight in bouuc-
ing up and down at every step, or
long-geared Yankees, who hang their
stirrup irons near the ground for con-
yenience in mounting, rather than for
supporting their legs when mounted ;
they lean back gainst the cantle, stick
out their elbows and keep time with them
to dull dog trot, just as the English
men does to brisk jog with his breach.
Amongst such bipeds you are not to look
for fine pacing horses, or racers either
for the barbarians have no conception of
the delight of gliding away at speed upon
occasion, or the comfort of sitting ele-
gantly at ease while carried with a gen
fly undulating motion at either moder-
ate or expeditions rate of travel.
All that is necessary to enable me to
find you a PAGER, however, is little in
struction as to the particular use for
which he is intended. Is he to be kept
with view to the production of turf
cutters, fast crabs, rattlers-or is he to
be crossed upon those sweet racking
mares which perambulate the sunny
South in order to increase little the
speed and constitutional vigor of Il race
that verges to grace and delicacy in res
emblance to the fairer portion of its
riders CHATS -? Is he to be of an ap-
pearance that will file the edge of that
''many-headed monster thing, the public.
or will he be required merely for ster-
ling qualities rum 'un to look at, but
good un to go" in conformity to the
taste of an independent minded master.
who judges for himself-''so solitary and
alone?
Sixty miles to the north of this we
come into the French country, where the
land is occupied by
The low Canadian, swart and mild OF mien,
In tuque caput, ceinture and moccasin
q had almost said souliers de beuf
either expression, if it does not gain me
credit as poet, will certainly not cause
ME to be sneered at as "a mere rhymes-
ter.')
Ten miles further is Grand Maska, on
the pleasant Iemaska river, navigable
thus far for sloops, and lined almost
throughout its whole length, like other
rivers in the French settlements, by neat
white cottages accompanied by matched
barns, with here and there substantial
stone houses, and at every few miles
some elegant buildings cluster about a
larger and more costly one with a belfry
and spire.
Forty miles up this river at st. Damase
was reared the great Moscow, now upon
your trotting turf, and who has precise
ly verified my foretold expectation in
showing himself equal to the mile in 2 rs.
In my description of him, published
three years ago in your paper and re-
printed the next year, when the horse
had appeared among you, misprint oc-
ours thus-''his lOins are not of great
length;' what / wrote was ''his loins
are not of great apparent length; they
are not very much developed" The
want of power in these parts is probably
what has kept him from signally rival
ling Lady Suffolk; and it will prevent
his ever being the champion of the trot-
ting course. Note We, have a runtlng
stud pony of the same breed as Moscow.
his sire being out of Moscow's dam-and
inheriting the same true stride in trot-
ting-which has a stout loin and tolera-
BILE thigh.
Twelve miles beyond the Yamaska we
strike the broad st. Lawrence, a league