The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-18
Henry aud BiIiy are Dend!

Every ono who has lived five years or NOR
in Dallas has known tho bay horse, Henry
and tho sorro horse, Billy, the two large, fat
sleek and kindly disposed servants of our ole
and respected lellow-townsmon, Henry Boil
Only year ago Henry, the boy, venerable il
years, resented the insult Offered him by /
young lady seated on bis back, who chide(
him because he stumpcd bis toe. lie reareC
and showed mad" The father Of tho young
ludy, then present, aid daughter, do moi
jerk the reins Henry Is n sensible horse
and will do no harm to thee She Stacked
tho reins and, potting Henry on his neck,
said "Henr DO clever; I'm not mad nj
thee Pretty Henry be good ~ In IN in
slant Henry resumed his travelling gait
and safely delivered the young lady nj
her home. lie was led TO his own home and
on being turned loose in his masters grass
lot went through series of evolulions
worthy of the knights of the olden times.
He seemed to perfectly understand when he
was mounted by n lady and would be rs de-
murc rs possible; but when mounted and
spurred by man he was ever md and rebel
lious. May not statesmen draw moral
from this fact? If brutes, so-called, realize
and most tenderly, the difference between u
man and woman, cannot man, in tho plcn-
titude of his power pay obeisancc to the pre-
iorred sex?
A thousand other instances, from the
landing ut jamestown, in 1907, to the pres
emit time, go to show that the horse, however
wild and untractable to men, Is here
and everywhere gallant knight to women
Dear reader, it is strange but 1t Is true.
venture to say, and | am only special
reporter on this occasion, that you may
bring from the interior of Mexico the widest
horse known in all that Regional horse that
will buck and bounce every time man
mounts him, and throw his rider in the ditch.
Yet, bring to his lSrboard side II gentle
maiden-nnywhero from fifteen to Sixty-and
place her on his back, with a ridng-habit as
long as from Denison to Corpus Christi, and
| bet you thousand guinoas to three acres
of overlooked bottom opposite Dallas, that
DO will go forward us gentle and mild us
chilly in the morning.
q poor Henry Henry the horse-born
to A ussl aumer Il Boil IN 1856, in this city,
then village, and having been rode by
Henry Boil, his owner, throughout the war
and afterwards, preserved in his family as an
heir loom and yet useful member This
Henry, horse as he was, when he died day
or two since, was mourned, and is to-day
mourned by brave men and lovely women.
Billy, member of the Same household,
but not so long member, but ever
the companion Of Henry, always
sleeping in tho same stable and en-
joying the Same bed, food and at
tention from the family they served, could
not survive the life of his longtime compan-
ion. He, too, sickened and died within a
week Of the death of his venerable friend,
Henry, and the family of Mr.. Henry Boil,
their owner and friend-espcc the little
ones of the household, who so loved Henry
and Billy-are sad indeed.
Indeed, gentle reader, they are sad, and
the writer Of this, who knows them so we'll
from the father and mother to the youngest
little angel, per force joins them in their sad
ness.
Would to God would to the angels il
heaven that man was as true to his Creator
to his Preserver and Savior, rs he is to his
faithful dumb brute-his Henry and hi
"Bily.' If such were the case, inhdelity
would retire into the impenetrabe morasse'
of the unknown world, and the names o
God and Christ would find q Judgment il
every house in the world. j, II. B.