Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-04-21

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used TO 'subjugate' him. Sweet subiu
CATION, both to him WHO subdues am
to him who yields The wild, un
mannerly andunmanageable colt, tn
fear of hOrsemen the country round
finding in you, not an enemy but /:
friend, receiving his daily food from
YOU, and all those little 'nOthings
which go as far with a horse a. a wO
man, to win and retain affection
grows to look upon you rs a protector
and friend, and testifies in counties,
ways his fOndness for you. So wher
Z L saw this horse, with action so free
and motion so graceful, amid that
I storm of bullets, nv heart inVolunta.
I rily went out TO her, and my feelings
rose higher and higher at every lear
she took from amid the whirlwind Ol
| fire and lead. As she plunged at last
over a little hillock out of range and
| came careering toward me rs only 8
riderless horse might come, her head
flung wildly from side to side, heI
nOstrils widely spread. her fianks and
shoulders fiecked with foam, her eye
dilating, l forgot my wound and all
the wild roar of battle, and, lifting
myself invOluntarily to a sitting pos
ture as she swept grandly ny, gave heI
ringing cheer.
perhaps in the sound of a human
voice of happy mood amid the awful
din she recognized n resemblance TO
the voice of him whose blood moisten-
ed her shoulders and was even yet
dripping from saddle and housings
Be that as it may, no sooner had my
voice sounded than she flung her head
with proud upward movement into
the air, swerved sharply to the left,
neighod as she might to a master at
morning from her stall, and came
trotting directly up to where / Law.
and, pausing, looked down upon me
as it were in compassion. / spoke
again, and stretched out my hand
caressingly. She pricked her ears,
took step forward and lowered her
nose until it came in contact with my
palm. Never did l fondle anything
more tenderly, never did see an ami
NAL which seemed to so court and ap-
preciate human tenderness as that
beautiful mare. | say beautiful No
er will her imagefade from my memo
~ W ullC I1GllOIN ldSiS.
''In weight she might have turned,
when well conditioned, nine hundred
and fifty pounds. Inieolor she was a
dark chestnut, with velvety depth
and soft look about the hair indie
scTibably rich and elegant. Many a
time have / heard ladies dispute the
shade and hue of her plush-like coat
as they ran their white, jeWelled fing-
ers through her silken hair. Her body
was round in the barrel, and perfectly
symmetrical. She was wide in the
launches, without projection of the
hip bones, upon which the shorter
ribs seemed TO lap. High In the
withers as she was, the line of her
back and neck perfectly curved, while
her deep, Oblique shoulders and long
thick forearm, ridgY with swelling
sineWs, suggesting the perfection of
stride and power. Her knees across
the pan were wide, the cannon-bone
terms long and sloping; her hOofs
round, dark, shiny, and well set On.-
Her name was a shade darker than
her coat, fine and thin, as a thorough
bred's always is whose blood is with
out taint or cross. Her ear was thin,
sharply pointed, delicately curved,
nearly black around the borders, and
as tremulOus as the leaves of an aspen.
Her neck rose from the withers to the
head in perfect curvature, hard devoid
of fat, and well cut under the chops.
Her nostrils were full. very full, and
thin almost as parchment. The eyes,
from which tears might fall or fire
flash, We're well brought out, soft as a
gazelle'g, almost human in their in
telligence, while over the small, bony
head, over neck and shoulders, yea,
over the whole body and clean down
to the hOOfs, the veins stood out as if
the skin were but tissue-paper against
which the warm blood pressed, and
which it might at any moment burst
asunder. a perfect animal,' / said to
as lay looking her over-'an
animal which might have been born
from the wind, and the sunshine, so
cheerful and so swift she seems; an
animal which q man would present as
his choicest gift TO the woman he
loved, and yet one which that woman,
wife or lady-love, would give him to
ride when honor and life depended on
bottom and speed
"All that afternoon the beautiful
mare stood over me, while away to
the right Of US the hOarse tide of bat
tie flowed and ebbed. What charm,
what delusIon of memory, held her
there? Was my face to her rs the
face of her dead master, sleeping a
sleep from which not even the widest
roar of battle, no, nor her cheerful
neigh at morning, would ever wake
him? Or is there in animals some in
stinct answering to our intuition, only
more potent, which tells them whom
TO trust and whom to avoid? i know
not, and yet some such sense they
may have, they must have, or else
why should this mare so fearlessly at
tach herself TO me? By what process
Of reason or instinct | know not, but
there she chose me for her master; for
when some of my men at dusk came
and found me, and, laying
me on a stretcher, started toward our
lines, the mare, uncOmpelled, of her
own free will, followed at nv side A.;
and all through that stormy night of
wind and rain, as my men struggled |
along through the mud and mire
toward HarrisOn's Landing, the mare
and ever after, until she
lied, was with me. and was mine, and
|, so far as man might be, was lfers. 1 |
named her Gulnare.
''As quickly as my wound permit /
ted, was transported to Washington, |
/ took the mare with me
Her fOndness for me grew daily, and |
soon became so marked as TO cause |
comment. L had her board
ed while in Washington at the corner
Of - street and = avenue. The |
groom had instructions to lead her |
around to the window against which |
was my bed, at the hospital, twice
every day, so that by opening the !
sash might reach out my hand and |
pet her. But the second day, no SOON
er had she reached the street, than she |
broke suddenly from the gToem and |
dashed away at full speeds l was |
lying bOlstered up in bed, reading,
when / heard the rush of flying feet,
and in an instant, with a loud, jOyful |
neigh, she checked herself in front Of |
my window. And when the nurse |
lifted the sash. the beautiful creature |
thrust her head through the aperture, /
and rubbed her nose against my |
like adog. lam nOtashamed |
10 say that | put both my arms around |
her neck, and, burying my face in her /
silken name, kissed her again and |
again. Wounded, weak, and away |
from home, with only strangers to /
wait upon me, and scant service at /
that, the affection of this lovely erea-