Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-08-17

slant, the crowd turned from the spot III
dead silence The man was lost
How Father Cured his Horse.
Well" said Reuben the story-teller,
father always wanted horse BECAUSE
the folks in Greene live scattered, and he
has 80 far t. 90 to attend funerals and
weddings and visit schools, you know :;
but he never felt us when nc was coming
afoot from Hildreth, and IA stranger asked
him to ride Father said, That's a hand
some horse you are driving. | should
like to own such IA horse myself What
will YOU give for herr said the man.
Do you want To sell = says father Yes,
| do, and I'll sell cheap, too says he.
oh, we'll, says father, it's no use talking
for haven't the money to buy with.
Make me an offer says he. We'll, just to
put an end to the talk, father says, I'll
give you seventy five dollars for the
horse You may have him, says the
man. as quic,, .is flash but you'll re-
pent of your bargain in IA week Why,
what ails the horse:' says father. 'Ails
him: He's got the "Old Nick in him,
that 5 what ails him. SAYS he If he has
i viii 10 80, me ii go; but if he takes II
notion to stop, all creation can't start
him. I've stood and beai 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. | might have beat
him 10 death and roasted him alive, before
he'd have bud;,cd an inch III take the
horse, says father What's his namc:
George says the man. i -hall call him
George, says father.
We'll, father brought him home, and
We boys were mighty pleased, and NC
liked Il place for him in the barn, and cur
ried him down and fed him yxell and f;ail.
cr said, Talk to him boys, and let him
know you feel friendly" So We coaxed
and peited him, and the next morning
father harnesscd him, and got into the
wagon to 20. But George wouldn't stir
a step. Father got out and paited him.
and We boys brough, him apples and clo-
yer tops, and once in IA while father would
say, Get up, George. but he didn't strike
the horse n blow. Byand-by, he says,
This Is going to take time. Well, Geor-
gle, well see which has the most pa
thence, you or |. so he sat ia the wagon
and took out his skeletons"
"Skelcions:' said Poppci, inquiringly
"Of sermons, you know. Minister,
always carry round Il little book TO put
down things they think oi when they are
ont walking or riding, OF hocing 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 that day
The next morning, twas the same thing
over again. only Georpie gave i'm little
sooner. All the while it seemed as t.
father couldn't do enough for the horse.
He was round the stable, feeding him and
fussing over him and talking to him in
his pleasant. gentle way. and the third
morning when he had fed and curried and
harncssed him with his own hands some
how there was different look i'm the
horses eyes. But when father was ready
to 60, George put up 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 up
by the horses head. Dove, tell what you
said to George that morning.
~ gave him an awful talking to- said
the little girl. Il told him it was perfect
ly ridiculous for him TO act so, tnat he'd
come to a real good place to live, where
everybody helped everybody, that he was
ministers horse, and oughtto set a good
sample to all the other horses, and God
wouldn't love him him if he wasn't a
good horse. That's what / told him.
what did George doy' Why, heard
every word said, and when | 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 rs shcepish as il he had been steal
ing hundred Sleeps
"Yes," said Reuben, "and when father
told him to go, he was off like a shot
lie has never made any trouble since
That's the way father cured balky horse
And that night when he was Embarrassed
he rubbed his head against fathers shoul-
der and told him as plain as horse
could speak, that he was sorry. He's
tried to make it up 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, I've seen him back himself between
the shafts of the wagon many u time, 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 din
ner to him." = ba- ir tte<
"He likes to eat out of plate" said
Do se, .'it makes him think he's folks"
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