The Press., 1888-08-16
Volume 3l. Number 20.
Manchester Herald.) MIR. GOODRICHsS COLT.

All Glastonbury and part of ~Manches- ter are laughing over good story told by MT, John O. Goodrich, of Glastonbury. The story is true in every particular, and MT. Goodrich himself enjoys telling it as we'll as any one else. Two years ago MT. Goodrich heard of MT. Ralph Cheney 8 PercL econ stallion, and decided to have a colt from him. All went well, and in due time his mare foaled. Last spring MT. Goodrich turned his colt, then a fine brown yearling, into MT. 0. W. Cowless big pas tnre on Keeney-st. for the summer. Dur ing the summer MT. Cowles has had as many as twenty-five colts insthe pasture at time. #
 MT. S.sU. Brown, the South Manchester liveryman, has 2 pasture gad1oaning MT. Cowles's, and in, it he turned ont last sum- mer his brown mare, 21 years old. On the 26th of October MT. Goodrich went to the pasture and picked out from the few remaining horses what he, took for his Percheron colt. It now appears that MT. Browns old mare had broken into MT. Cowles's pasture, and Mr. Goodrich se- lected her as his colt. He led her home, and proceeded to lavish upon her that af- lection which a colt usually receives from a kind hearted farmers family.
 Meantime, MT. Brown went to the pas- ture for bis mare, but to his eonsternation she had disappeared. She wasn't worth much, but MT. Brown thought good deal of her, and after making 8 fruitless search advertised for her. But this brought no news of her whereabouts, and finally he concluded some one had stolen her and he should never see her again. At last MT. Cowles, about November 12, visited the pasture to take up pair of colts of his own that had been summering there. He was surprised to find three colts there, the one that was not his own being a fine brown Percheron mare. As the weather was then cold he took all three to the sta bles and advertised the mare But as the weeks and months rolled by no one ap- peared to claim it.
 Meantime, MT. and Mrs. Goodrich were suffering some disappointment over the failure of their colt to grow and develop as she should. Mrs. Goodrich gave her sugar plums and dainties, and MT. Good rich fed her all she would eat; but, in backed. Several Glastonbury horsemen on stock. Her mouth had a queer look for a Colt, but Rev. MT. Rankin said it was only what is technically known as a ''parrot" mouth. During the winter she was carefully halter broken, and once or twice MT. Goodrich ventured to put light bridle and saddle on her and drove her around the yard to aecustom her grad ually to the harness. He did not attempt to break her, because she looked so poorly he hated to drive her on the street.
 This spring Mir. Goodrich determined to change the pasturage and see if the colt wouldn't come on little faster. So about @ week ago he went to Mir. Henry Paine's, in Marlboro Mir. Paine chanced to look into her mouth, and exclaimed, s'This isn't 6 colt; its an old horse. , Mir. Goodrich thereupon took the colt home. The story reaching Mr. Cowles, he sent 8 postal card to Goodrich, who drove over to Manchester to see Cowles. Goodrich told his story, and Cowles smiled.
 ''Now, added MT. Goodrich, ''have you got colt that belongs to me-or, rather, won't ask that-have you got colt that doesn't belong to you ?"
 'I have," replied MT. Cowles, ''and, what is more, I've got your. colt"
 s'Then whose colt is it that I have ?"
 ''It is Sam Browns twenty four year-old mare."
 Of course MT. Goodrich was pleased, and his pleasure was turned to delight when Mir. Cowles took him into the Bis sell pasture and showed him the real Percheren colt, grown to 8 horse, with an elegant form and in prime condition.
 Goodrich was delighted, and so was Brown, who found his old mare in very good shape. The cost of keeping was di- vided, and Goodrich didn't charge any thing for his winters work breaking the cOH to the halter.