The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-11
How Father Cured His Horse.

has 50 fur to 60 to attend funerals and
weddings, and visit schools, you know;
but he never ielt AS if he could afford To
buy one. But one day he was coming
aiOot from llildrelh, and stranger asked
him to ride. Father said, That's a hand.
some horse you are driving; | should like
to own such horse myself What will
you give for him. said the man. DO
you want to sell! says father; its no use
talking, Tor | haven't the money 10 buy
with. Make me an offer, says he. We'll,
Just TO put AL end TO the talk, father says
IN give you sGventy.fye dollars for the
horse You may have him, says the
man, rs quick as flash, but you'll re-
pent Of your bargain in q week. why,
what ails the hOrseH says father, Ais
him. Hes got the odd Nick, in him.
that's what ais him, says he If he has
a will to go, he'll go; but if he takes mo-
ton to stop, all creation can't start him.
I've stood and beat that horse till the
sweat run oil me in streams. I've fired a
gun close to his ears; I've burnt shaVings
under him. Knight have beat him to
death and roasted him alive before he'd
have budgcd IN inch I'll take the horse,
says father What's his namcY George,
says the man. i shall call him George,
says father.
"Well, father brought him home, and
we boys were nightly pleased, and we
fixed place for him in the barn, and
Curried him down and led him well, and
father said, Talk to him, boys, aud let
him know you feel friendly SO we
coaxed and petted him, and the next
morning father. harnessed him and got
into the wagon to gos but George would
not stir u step Father got ont and petted
him, and we boys brought him apple 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 is going TO take time. Well,
George, we'll see whOlhas the most pa.
tienCe, you or ! so he sat in the wagon
and took out his skeletons -
skeletons y said POppet, inquiringly.
"Or sermons, you know Ministers al.
ways carry round little book TO put
down things they think of when they are
off walking or riding, or hOeing in the
garden
"Well, father sat full two hours before
the horse was ready to 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 in q
little sooner. All the while II seemed as
IL father couldn't do enough TOR the horse.
lie was round the stable feeding him and
fussing over him and talking to him in his
gentle, pleasant way, and the third morn.
ing, when lie had fed and Curried and
harnessed him with his own hands, some.
how there was different look in the
horses eyes. But when father was ready
TO go, George put his feet together, and
laid his ears back, and wouldn't stir.
Well, Dove Yves playing about the yard,
and she brought her stool and climbed up
by the horses head. Dove, tell what you
said to George that morning"
IL gave him an awful talking tO" said
the little girl. N told him ii was perfectly
Ridiculous for him to act so, that he'd
come to real good place to live, where
everybody helped everybody; that he was
minister's horse and ought TO set a good
sample TO all the other horses, and God
wouldn't love him il lie wasn't good
horse. That's what told him. Then l
kissed him on the nose" "And what did
George do?" "Why, he heard every
word | said, and whGnI got through, he
felt so 'shamed of himself he couldn't hold
up his head; so he just dropped it till It
most touched the ground, and he looked
as sheepish US If he had been stealing
hundred Sleeps"
"Ycs," said Reuben, "and when father
told him TO 60, he was of like shot lie
has never made any trouble since, That's
the way father cured a balky horse. And
that night, when he was embarrassed, he
rubbed his head against fathers shoulder,
and told him rs plain as n horse could
speak, that he was sorry. Hes tried to
make TO father ever since, for the trouble
he made him. When he's loose in the
pasture father has only to stand at the
bars and call his name, and he walks up
as quiet as an old sheep. Why | have
seen him back himself between the shafts
Of the wagon many time, to save father
trouble. Father wouldn't take two hun.
dred dollars for the horse TO day. lie
eats everything you give him. Sis very
Ollen brings out some of her dinner TO
him.
ale likes to cat out Of q plate" said
Dove, at makes him think he's n folks"