Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-17

So.
Your way of questioning is the way
to get replies; continue to give them
space between the questions for response
and let them return the sheets YOU send
weighed down with facts. No subject
now interests me so much as your ex-
pected book: not only on account of its
great Importance, but quite as much be-
cause | see it is a desideratum in the
case of great and successful horsemen.
The time has come when horsemen by
and large are great power; and it is
near at hand when the equine stable
man, whose soul is absorbed in the pol
ished coat of the blood horse, will shout
his highest praises as he sees the ebay
break" of the millennial morn. Fifty
years ago, an elderly Scotch woman,
with her lame husband and their several
children, had walked six miles out of
Stanstead, Canada, to Il Baptist church
in Derby, VT, one Sunday, and in re-
ply to the minister's expression of aston
ishment at their not riding, she said ::
AYE. sir, notice that this country is
heaven for women, but a hell for
horses" But now | begin to hope for a
heaven tor horses and higher heaven
for woman to go with it. Your cause
is eminently humane. Intelligence leads
to humanity and to true religion.
But why this evening twilight, even
in Vermont, respecting the humble, in
noccnt and in forty ways useful Great
ures: Who are the willing and compe-
tent men to re-awaken the sheep interest,
to give the Spanish Merino sheep his
tory from Consul Jarvis importation of
eighty years ago to the present? 1t is Il
Vermont matter and should be honOred
by Vermont historians. intended. if
no one else did, to give II chapter on
Morgan horses to the IIemenway his
tory, but that history, so far as learn,
has failed to give the last volume, that
is, Windsor county, as the authoress
was disabled by being run over by a
team in the streets of Ludlow. The pa
pers now say she was at her recent
death just completing the sixth volume.
She certainly had nothing of the host of
matter pertaining to Barnard which is
in my possession, and wish permission
here now to give the opinion that the
lIemenway volumes will be read by
more people and with greater interest
than any other Vermont history of its
first century of civilization, compiled by
any Bancroft alive or that may ever be
alive.
Once, many years since. made "A call
at the sold Hubbard Horse" homestead,
to see a Mrs. John II. Bliss, previously
a Miss Blodgett. toward Randolph Hill
saw her and we talked of my school at
the hill. | knew General Hibbard in
1888 and later; saw the Hubbard Horse
in 81 at the stables of the Union House
in Montpelier and at the same time and
place saw the beautiful bay five-year-
old, called Morgan Eagle, which horses.
as | was told, were respectively got by
Bulrush and Woodbury., half brothers.
| knew the Royalton Wheelocll Horse
well; said to be the best broken stallion
eXtant. | knew the Richardson Horse of
Hancock and the Flying Morgan of Bur
lington and Ethan Allen and the Babbitt
Horse and so on, including Billy Root
and the Crane Horse, afterward called
Royal Morgan. The Crane Horse until
he was n years old was said to be of the
Batchelder Horses get; afterward he
was said to be by the sherman. Last of
all. | saw Daniel Lambert at Rutland
fair. rapidly led by his keeper. | was
deeply interested to see his marvellous
hind legs prope him ahead. 1t was
Il striking exhibition of an eXtant ances-
tor among many of his descendants.
Since scribbling you the foregoing at
various dates, | have removed 90 miles
west to this place, Crandon, Sphinx Co..
South Dakota; and the reader will skin
this parenthesis and go on, as if all had
been written at one sitting
Speaking of Lambert, when read of his
death, felt the sombre twilight after
the setting sun. Gentlemen. compiler,
of Morgan History, on the rural height:
of Ripton at ''Bread Loaf Inn, the
| height of hospitality ('How many
, loaves have ye'', that We feed so many
men, also women and children as hungry
, as the men are) historians. | am AS
tonished at your doings so, useful ant
| glorious, and congratulate you accord
, ingly; your conduct isas strange in thes,
days of selfish, pecuniary interest As it i,
, beneticent and important. Forty-fvt
years ago | said the horse Justin Nor
, gan was of more credit 10 Vermont
than any man that ever lived in it Will
r the exception of Ethan Allen, but now
, ! cease to make the exception, and Sc
, that horse at the top, making him the cal
! sheaf of all Nermont's glories, thanks t
the Bread Loaf Inn conclave.