Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-09-29

Well, said Reuben, the stsFy-teIlw,
father always wanted n horse. because
the folks IN Greene live scattered, and
he has 30 far 10 go 10 attend funerals
and weddings, and viait schools, you
know but he never felt as IL he could
afford 10 buy one. But one day he waa
coming afoot from Hildreth, and 4
stranger aAked him 10 ride. Father
said, " That's handsome horse you ARE
driving. / should like 10 own suck q
horse IA that myself" "What win you
give for him fh said the man. "Do
you want 10 sell him 2" says father.
Eyes, do, aud I'LL sell him cheap, Coo, =
said he. "Oh. well, says my father,
"it's no use talking. for ! havsn't the
money DO buy him with. " !" Make me
an offer, said he. /" Well. just 10 put
an end 10 the talk. " said my father. s'fll
give You seEenty-iiye dollars for the
horse" "Yon may have him." says
the man Aa quick ah fash, = but you'll
repent OF your bargain In q week
Why, what ailE the horse" Raid my
father. "Ails him. said the man,
why he's got the Old Nick in him,
that's what ails him, says be- 'sIf he
has a viii % GO. he'n 60. but III he takes
notion 20 stop, all creation can't start
him. | have stood and beat that horse
till the sweat ran OF me In streams.
I've fired gun close 20 his ears I've
burnt ahRvingN under his nose. i might
have beat him 90 death or burnt him
alive before bed have budged ann inch. Y
I'm take the horse. says father
:. What his name 2" - s'Ge0rge, % says
the man. "I shall call him George.
says my father.
Well, father brought him hOme, and
we boys were nightly pleased. and we
built place for him in tbs barn, aud
curried him down and fed him well, and
father said
Talk 10 him. boys, and let him know
you feel friendly"
So we coaxed and petted him, and the
next morning father haFnemed him and
get into the wagon 10 90 on. But
George wouldn't stir . step. Father
got out and pMtted him. and we boys
brought him apples and clover tops, and
once in a while father would say Get up,
George, but he didn't strike the horse
blow. BY and by he says this il going
20 lake time. Wei, George, weU wee
which has the most patience you or / 7"
So be sat In the wagon
He sat full two hours before the horse
was ready 10 start but when he did
there was no more trouble for that day
The next morning twas the same thing
over again. only George gave Ian little
sooner.
All the while it seemed As II father
couldn't do enough for the horse. He
was round the stable feeding and fuaaing
over him in his quiet, gentle way and
the third morning. when he had fed
and curried and harnessed him with his
own hands, somehow there was a differ-
ent look in the horses eyes. But when
father was ready 90 60, George put his
feet together and Laid his ears back, and
wouldn't stir. Well, Dove was playing
about the yard, and she brought her
stool and climbed mp by the horses head.
Deye, tel what yea said 70 George that
morning.
IT gave him an awful talking 10,
said the little girl - told HAM il was
perfectly ridiculous for him 60 act NO !;
that he'd come 10 real good place 30
live, where everybody helped every
body that he was a ministers horse,
and ought TO set good example % al
the other horses, and God wouldn't love
him il he wasn't good horse That's
what 1 told him. Then / kissed him ON
the nose"
"And what did George do ?"
why, he heard every word that i
sasd, and when 1 got through he felt 80
'shamed OF himself, he couldn't hold mp
his head so he Jest dropped il, till u
most touched the ground, and he looked
as sheepish ms il he had been stealing
hundred sheepS."
Yes. and when father told him 10 go.
be was OF hike fash. he has never
made any trouble since. That's the
way father cured balky horse. And
that night, when he was unhnrnessed, he
rubbed his head against fathers shonl-
der, and told him as plain as % horse
could speak that he was sorry. He has
tined 30 make it mp 10 father ever since,
for the trouble he had made him. When
he's loose in the pasture father has only
To stand nc the bars and call hia name,
and he walks up as Iuiet IS an old sheep.
Why, I've seen him back himself be-
tween the shafts Of the wagon just to
save father trouble. Father wouldn't
take two hundred dollars for The horse
to-day. He eats anything you give him.
Sis very often brings out some OF her
dinner 10 him.
"He often eAss out of a plate, says
Dove; cit makes him think he's folks.