Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-12

six long green roads met. On hear
ing the shot Brutus stopped short,
put his ears forward in an attitude
of attention. l was surprised to
see him so impressionable. After
the brilliant education | assumed
he had received in his youth, he
must be well accustomed to the re-
port of gun. | pressed my knee
against him to make him move on,
but Brutus would not stir. | tried
to back him, to make him turn to
the right or to the left, but in vain.
! made him feel my riding whip,
but still he was immoyable. Bru-
tus was not to be displaced do not
smile, for mine is a true history
each time | urged him to move the
horse turned his head around and
gazed upon me with an eye express
sive of impatience or er prise, and
then relapsed into his motionless
attitude. There was evidently some
misunderstanding between me and
my horse. saw it in his eyes.
Brutus was saying as plainly as he
could without speech, "I, horse, do
what | ought to do; and you,
horseman, do not perform your
part"
| was more puzzled than embar-
rassed. "What strange horse
Oheri has sold me- aud why does
he look upon me in such a way?" l
was about to proceed to extremities
and administer him q good thrash
ing, when another shot was fred.
The horse then made one bound.
thought l had gained my point,
and again tried to start him, but in
vain. He stopped short, and
planted himself more resOlutely
than ever. l then got into a rage,
and my riding whip entered into
play; | took it into both hands, and
struck the horse right and left. But
Brutus, too, lost patience, and find
ing passive resistance unavailing,
defended himself by rearing, kick
ing and plunging and in the midst
of the battle, while the horse cap
cred and kicked and l, exasperated,
was Aogging him with the loaded
butt-end of my broken whip, Bru-
tus, nevertheless, found time to
look at me, not only with impa-
tience and surprise, but with rage
and Indignation. While required
of the horse the obedience he re.
fused, he, on his part, was excepting
Of me something l did not do.
How did this end? To my shame
be it spoken, | was relentlessly and
disgracefully unseated. Brutus
saw there was to be nothing gained
by violence, so judged it necessary
to employ malice. After a mo-
ment's pause, evidently passed in
reflection, the horse put down his
head and stood upright on his four
legs with the address and equihbri-
um of clown upon his hands. l
was consequently deposited upon
the sand, which fortunately hap
pened to be thick in the place
where / fell.
| tried to raise myself, but cried
out and fell stretched with my face
toward the ground. l felt as if a
knife we're sticking in my left leg.
The hurt did not prove serious
the swapping of one of the small
tendons-but rot the less painful.
| succeeded, however, in turning
myself and sat down; but while |
was rubbing my eyes, which were
filed with sand, l saw the great
foot Of a horse gently descend
upon my head, and again extend
me on my back. l then felt quite
disheartened, and was ruminat-
ling in my mind what this strange
horse could be, when felt guam
tity Of sand strike me in the face.
| opened my eyes and saw Brutus
throwing up dust with both fore
and hind feet, trying to bury me.
This lasted several miEutes, when,
apparently thinking me sufficient
ly inferred, Brutus knelt by my
grave, and then galloped around me,
describing perfect circle. called
out to him to stop. He appeared
to be embarrassed; but seeing my
hat, which had been separated
from me in my fall, he took it be-
tween his teeth, and galloped down
one of the steep paths out of my
sight.
l was left alone. | shook off the
sand which covered me, and with
my arm and right leg-my left leg
l could not move-dragged myself
to a bushy bank, where l seated
myself, and shouted with all my
might for assistance. But no an-
Swer; the wood was perfectly silent
and deserted.
l remained alone in this wretch
ed condition above half an hour,
when saw Brutus in the distance,
returning by the same road by
which he went, enyeloped in a
cloud of dust. Gradually, as it
cleared away, | saw a little carriage
approaching--a pony chaise-and