Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-08

repent Ol your bargain IN n week. w ny,
what ails the horseP' says father. Ais
him? He's got the Old Nick in him, that's
what ails him. says he : If he has a will to
go, he'll go; but If he takes notion to stop,
all creation can't start him. I've stood and
beat that horse till the sweat run off me in
streams. I've fired II gun close to his ears
I've burnt shavings under him. might have
beat him to death and roasted him alive be-
fore he'd have budged an inch IN take
the horse says father. What's his name?'
George says the man. / shall call him
George, says father
"Well, father brought him home and we
boys were nightly pleased, and we fixed II
place for him in the barn, and curried him
down and fed him well, and father said,
Talk to him. boys, and 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 go. But George
wouldn't stir step. Father got out and pat
ted him, and we boys brought him apples and
clover-tops, and once in while father would
say, Get up, George but he didn't strike
the horse II blow. BY and by, he says, This
is going to take time. Well George, we'll
see which has the most patience, you or |, so
he sat in the wagon and took out his skele-
TONS"
" Skeletons?' said Poppet, inquirngly.
"Of sermons, you know. Ministers always
carry round II 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 a little sooner.
All the while it seemed us if 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 harnessed him with his own
hands, somehow 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
was playing about the yard, and she brought
her stool and climbed up by the horses head.
Dove tell what you said to Georgia, that
morning.
81 gave HIM IN awful talking to-" said the
little girl. | told him it was perfectly 'edic-
ulous for him to act so, that he'd come to a
real good place to live, where everybody
helped everybody, that he was minister's
horse, and ought to set good sample to all
the other horses, and God wouldn't love him
if he wasn't II good horse. That's what
told him. Then kissed him on the nose
And what did George dop' why he 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 sheepish rs if he had been stealing hun
bred sheep"
Yes said Reuben, land when father
told him to go, he was off like shot. He
has never made any trouble since. That's
the way father cured II balky horse. And
that night, when he was Embarrassed, he
rubbed his head against fathers shoulder, and
told him us plain us II 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
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