The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-02-06
RARUS AND iiMmI.
Remarkable Friendship Between the Fa-
nous Trctter ani q Scotch Terrier.

No sketch of Rarus would be COM
plete without some mention of his re-
markable friendship for dog. When
the horse was in California fireman
gave to Splan. a wiry-haired Scotch
terrier pup, which was then two
months old, and weighed, when full
grown, only two pounds. Splan in
turn gave Jimmy. as the pup was
called, to Dave. the groom of Rarus,
with the caution not to let the horse
hurt him. for on several occasions
Rarus had bitten dogs that ventnred
into his stall. But to this terrier.
which is described as possessing almost
human intelligence. the trotter took a
great fancy, which the dog fully re-
turned. They became fast and in
separable friends.
Not only" said Mr.. Splan, ''were
they extremely fond of each other, but
they showed their affection as plainly
as did ever man for woman. We
never took any pains to teach the dog
anything about the horse. Everything
the dog knew came to him by his own
patience From the time | took him
to the stable pup until | sold Rarus
they were never separated an hour. We
once left the dog in the stall while we
took the horse TO the blacksmith shop,
and when we came back we found that
ne had made havoc with everything
while the horse, during the entire
journey, was uneasy, restless and in
general acted as badly as the dog did.
Dave remarked that he thought we
had better keep the horse and dog to-
-gether after that When Rar,s went
to the track for exercise or to trot a
race, the dog would follow Dave
around and sit by the gate at his side,
watching Rarus with as much interest
as Dave did. When the horse was re-
turned to stable after the heat and was
unchecked, the dog would walk up and
climb on his forward legs and kiss him,
the horse always bending his head
down to receive the careSs. In the
stable, after work was over, Jimmy
and the horse would often frolic like
two boys. If the horse lay down
Jimmy would climb on his back, and
in that way soon learned to ride him,
and whenever / led Rarus out TO show
him to the public Jimmy invariably
knew what it meant, and it enhanced
the value of the performance by the
manner in which he could get on the
horses back. On these occasions the
horse was shown the halter, and
Jimmy, who learned to distinguish
these events from those in which the
sulky was used, would follow Dave and
Rarus out on the quarter stretch, and
then, when the halt was made in front
of the grand stand, Dave would stoop
down and in flash Jimmy would jump
on his back. run up to his shoulder,
from there leap on the herse's back,
and there he would stand. his head
high in the air and his tail out stiff be-
,aind, barking furiously Mt the people. !"
When Rarus was sold to Mr.. Bonner,
Splan sent Jimmy with the horse,
rightly Judging that it would be cruel
to separate them. But in Mr.. Bonner's
stable there was a bull terrier in charge,
and one day when for some real or
fancied affront, the small dog attacked
the larger one, the latter took Jimmy
by the neck, and was fast killing him.
but Rarus heard his outcries and per-
ceiving that his little friend was in
danger and distress, pulled back on the
halter till it broke, rushed out of his
stall and would have made short work
of the bull terrier had he not been re-
strained by the grooms. s.-Atd71ttc
MOnthly.