The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-01
THE HoMEwARD MARCH.

supercilious airs! Like one Of the com.
mon herd, only hatless and partly shoe.
less, he was forced to stand and view
the country militia, anathematizing the
beast upon which Dannie now rode,
and at loss to know how he himself
should manage to reach home without
her.
"I'll not trust myself upon her back
again" he soliloquized, after receiving
from the hands of two grinning urch.
ms his lost shoe and hat And SO, be.
ing DESTROYS Of Immediately quitting
the scene Of his discontinue, there was
nothing left for him but 70 foot it back
to the farm.
In the dusk Of the evening, TO the
merry tune of "The Girl Left Behind
Me-" marched home Danrie and his
lads, old Bess tagging behind, spirit.
less, and altogether Indifferent to the
fact that two small urchins bestrode
her back.
"Wall, there!" exclaimed CHcIe Lie,
when the history of the afternoon was
told, ehosses seem to hev touch o
human natur' as well as y deal q COM
mon sense; they do, fer fac'," and,
laughing heartily at the manner in
which Edwin had put the old horse to
her PAGES, he proceeded to the stable,
in order to look after her wants HMM
self.
But, Bess, not unlike creatures Oi
reason, already felt the strain OF reac'
ton, and turned from her oats with a
whinny of distress. Her poor old legs
ached from their unwonted eNrtion;
her nerves were unstrung,, and great
drops Of perspiration trickled down heI
forehead. Like belle Illuminating
over the past, she stood, with droopina
head and lusterless eye. All the pride
and gayety of those days, when the call
of duty was so inspiring, the burden SC
light, came before her, when TO mar
tial music she pranced and danced
every day in the week, when her great
est hardship was the prick Of the gold
en- spur in her glossy Sides.
Could she, bearing such reoollections
ever again permit herself 10 be yolked
to the clumsy plow, ever again paod e
market with load of hay, or, wors4
still, cabbages?
Illuminating thus. the sultry nigh
through, old Bess fell asleep upon hel
bed Of straw-fell asleep, never Il
awake again. Never more would tht
call to duty arouse her.-that call t.
which, when pleasant she SO cheerfully
responded; that call which, when no
to her taste, she had learned so Gun
ningly to shirk.
I'm glad of it," snapped Edwin, tn,
next morning, forgetting his usua
drawl, as he packed his vaEse for de
parture. 1.-The wretched old beast!
shall hate the Fourth of July as Ion,
as I live, after yesterdays proceedings
Death has saved her good lashing
you may we'll believe"
"Then you'd "a he'd good cause fe
hatin' the fifth of July, too my boy,
dryly said Uncle Lie, who felt yer,
sore over the loss of his farorite. HE,
you struck Bess one lick this day, I'd
I'd "a -"
You'd "a what?" sneered Edwin, q
the old man paused for . moment
I'D felt called on to do my duty, sill
jes' as Bess felt called to do hern yes
terday," was the emphatic reply, an
by the way Uncle Lie fourished tn
cane in his hand and gazed into tn
boys eyes without one suspicion of
squirt, Edwin fully understood whs
: that duty would have been without tn
further addition Of 'nevvy, or no ne,
vy."-Mrs. Nora Marble, in Golde
Rule.