The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-22

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if he had horse like that, would
he leta stranger to race him for twelve
miles in such buggy with two men
in it, in this mud.
"No," said he, 81 would not"
"Neither would l."
He wanted to buy Nellie for $50,
500, s155, $3.50 and 5000, but he
could not.
/ made her lie down in deep straw,
much of the forenoon, and in the
afternoon 1 walked by her side to
Corinth; and the next day, home.
When we came to the place where we
passed the sheriff she tossed her
head, pricked up her ears and spoke /;
and showed her appreciation as
plainly as Newfoundland dog could
have done. She minced across the
bridge, and spoke again when she
came to the top of the hill, where
she first saw the game. In it all she
showed how much race ofhorses can
know if they can he brought up and
worked for many generations, by
owners, of kindness and culture, who
treat them well. Probably no horse
was ever more fortunate in his owner
than one in the hands of an upright,
educated, Green Mountain farmer,
and none ever knew more or behaved
better.
The stage driver, the old time
telegrapher, had brought the news
before our arrival, and we received
quite an ovation; which Nellie
seemed fully to appreciate and enjoy.
The news had come first of the
sheriff's change and monopoly of
horses, with greatly exaggerated
account of his driving and start of
me, and Cookins had given up all
hope and had become outrageous. He
had said that if / had beaten the
sheriff's two horses, he would have
divided the $4,000 with me. When
the truth came he was greatly de-
lighted and although he forgot his
rash assertion, yet he never forgot to
tell of Nellie as the horse that had
gone forty-eight miles in two hours
and ten minutes and saved him three
thousand dollars.
He gave her the run of his village
premises, asked me as special favor
to him to buy him the best colt /
could find and drive it till it was
perfectly broken; rented US part of
his house ready furnished, with fruit,
garden, woodlot and all, on condition
that we would come right In, to
which, with many demurrers, Nancy
consented. Nellie was not used at all
for four months, and then seemed
none the worse for her feat.
When 1 came west L left Nellie
with friend, a parson, who promised
to take good care of her, and to take
her sometimes to certain lonely
stretch of road, or upon the ice and
let her 90 as fast as she chose. As
soon as was rich enough l cent for
her and her two colts, and she carried
me as sheriff-not as deputy-many
thousands of miles. And her seven
sops and daughters have carried me
as many more, and with their progeny
by their sale. have given me and
mine many a substantial benefit.
Through the war my two sons and
myself rode her grandsons without
ever seeing anything We liked better.
They each owed step in promotion
to the speed and bottom Of their horses
and to their elasticity which enabled
their riders to perform feats Of riding
impossible upon common horses.
Nellie and one of her daughters
were che most sOciable and talkstive
horses that / ever knew. ALI the
family were talkative, but these the
most so. When living in the village,
| always let my horses run out in the
streets for exercise, water and grass,
when not used. If Nellie saw me
when she was out she would always
trot up to me and demand recogni-
ton, and follow me wherever | went.
If I went in anywhere she would
stand outside and stamp and paw and
shake her head and call with the
utmost Impotence. And when l
came out she would frisk and talk
like dog, and follow me again until
| forbade her or went home. IL,
when she was out. l called her by a
certain shrill whistle she would hear
it twice as far as a man could and
would soon be heard running at full
speed and scolding constantly because
she was not at the end of her race.
Taken all in all, Nellie was the
choicest treasure to me of all my prop
erty. And when the village where
/ lived-now a city-wanted piece
of land from me for cemetery, 1 gave
n IN tbem nm condition that they