Beautiful Jim Key
While watching a rerun of the Antiques Roadshow, I was introduced to what may have been the smartest horse who ever lived--Beautiful Jim Key.
This horse could read and write, make change with money, do arithmetic for "numbers below thirty," and cite Bible passages among other things.
He was owned and trained by a former slave, Jim Key.
“This is certainly the most astonishing and entertaining exhibition I have ever witnessed.”
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President William McKinley after seeing Jim Key perform
