Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-16
The HQrse1nan.

hA uOIStmtn look alike. 1ney mal.
have different features, may be Of differ.
ent sizes, may be different in thou.
sand ways, yet they all look alike.
Horsemen are born, not made by the
capriciousness of circumstances. Trace
a horseman back to the days of his
childhood. As a boy he cared but little
for school-yard sport. He ignored a
ball and looked with contempt upon
''bull POM and ''sheep meat.'' His
peculiar habits impressed the school
master. ''That boy" he would often
say, Twill be something great. Just
notice him. He is taciturn and peculiar,
and, to tell you the truth, I believe be
will develop into a poet" Follow the
boy. When he arrives at home, he
does not haul out 4 truck wheel wagon
or bow and arrow. He goes to the sta.
BILE and looks at the horse. The horse
may be an inferior animal and his neck
may be long instead OF being arched,
yet the boy watches him with interest.
He curries the horse and rubs him with
a piece of blanket. Education with
this boy is side issue. The horse il
supreme. The boy may be sent to col.
lege and may be graduated with high
honors, yet his thoughts dwell not upon
the masters of learning, the great poets
and scientists whom his classmates wor.
shipped but upon the horse. He KIN ows
the records of all the fast horses and he is
happy when he can escape from his
stilled surroundings and indulge his
soul in talk with livery stable m an.
To him Jay-Eye-See is Dan iei
Webster, and a Goldsmith Maid can
take the place of a Henry Clay. If he
value man at all. it is as horse medi.
UNI. To him, the man who knows
most with regard to horses is most in.
telligent, for, changing a little from
Pope, we'll made horse is the noblest
work of God.
The horse boy leaves home at an
early age, and starts out for himself.
He secures employment in livery
stable and is happy, not on account OF
the pay which he receives, but because
he can feast his eye on horse flesh. By
this time his features or rather some
part of his face has received that ne,
culiar stamp which distinguishes ali
horsemen: He has forgotten his gram.
mar, and many words of refinement
have slipped from his memory, but The
vocabulary which he so dearly loves
has been enriched by many horse terms.
Now he talks horse with old men and
is battered when they tell him that he
is we'll posted. When he takes up q
newspaper he turns at once to the horse
news. If there be but little the paper
is dull. If there be much, the paper
is very entertaining. AS a rule he does
not become drunkard. He does not
always become sporting man, though
he is passionately fond of the race
course simply because he sees so many
fine horses there. When he grows old
and settles down on farm, he has fine
horses and is veXed because his sons
do not worship them. His last days
are spent in the stable. Early at morn
ing he totters out to look at Dick, old
Cal and Juno. He is now an oracle.
The horse boy-who has come from
afar-listens with reverence to him,
treasures up the words which the old
man treasured up when he was boy.
On his death bed, the old man, upon,
the careful, silent entrance of his horse
man, looks up and asks about the horses.
He is not SO anxious with regard to his
children for he knows that they can
take care of themselves, but his horses
must be governed with a rod to
which they are not accustomed. He
has spent horse life. He knew many
men, but horses introduced them to
him. He valued men, but it was from
the horse standpoint. --Arkansas0 Irav.
ellen.