Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-28

ago - osning . Elite pack JACK called
BooE.eraag. be cost ms eight dollars,
but | was poor and eoald not buy =
horse. Also il was unpopular TO get one
IN any other way. Il YOU got one IN any
other way. n the language OF fhe yigi-
lance eoEmittee. the eOnrruuity gen
eEsiy thew "a halter az is o~n ex-
pense.
Boomerang was a bright Young ass.
WITH DARK cross On Lis back and a saw
back sad lie On which | used 70 pack
sidepork AID ether titbies u tempt nay
appetite and tickle Iny palate while
prospecting for gold ia the bowels Of the
earth Also | carried salt WITH which TO
salt my mines If | found thern Ia hot
weather and feared that they nigh. gss
too ganley.
Boomerang had 10 home ties IL he
had any relatives they did not core
spond with him He and grew np to-
gether on the Medicine Bow range; a.
Host ike boys and girls together, you
Iaight say. But he was not happy.
Sometimes ! thought that possibly. Is
he got 10 knowing me better, perhaps
was disappointment 10 him lie acted
that way. Anyhow no would sob and
cry while he thought was asleep, many
and many night.
After that got more forehanded. and
when got tue nrst payment on one Of
my justly celebrated picked mines |
bought a ninle called Yellow Fever.
This mule WAS sold 10 me Us good.
kind family mule. aad intended 10
raise yet other mules for the market.
Yellow Fever was almost always fatal.
however, DO matter where she broke
ont. Our first grave on Vinegar Hill vas
taken charge of by = man who partial
roae ED the tail OF yellow Fever. She
is still alive. bat childless. No little feet
patter about her corral No little croupy
voices salute tie silent night in her sim
pie home
Five years later bought al American
horse on p comparative stranger. He
was a spirited horse. with "a piercing eye
on the side where | stood. On. he was a
corker. lie had lots Of pop and eater
prise aad high purposes into him, also
bright red nostrils. and he was checked
up real high
The man vho sold we tAis horse said
that he intended settling down and
starting bank IL our town. but he did
not. There was some hitch about get
ting a large enough building, believe.
He sold me this horse-Hectic. by Judas
Priest-because his wife had died. He
said that hectic was her horse. and
since she died he could Eot bear TO look
at him Then he came and cried into
my lap quite little spell
That night the horse was i'll all night.
A neighbOr told me that Hectic had the
collie, but when put my hand on the
little hot stomach of my steed he kicked
me across the plaza and into a bed of
eacti. IL hurt me good deal, especially
in my finer feelings. 1t doesn't take
much TO hurt my finer feelings. sup
pose that it would be very difficult, in
deed. TO find man who is so susceptible
to kic., at the hands Of a spirited horse
as l am.
On the following day veterinarian
from Leipsic examined Hectic and made
quite an extended report. am not a
horse man, so cannot remember what
he said. but | know he said that his
hampers were down. | asked him if we
could not get them up again. would
do al that could to boom them through
the press and on the street. But he looked
at me sadly. and ! could sec the tears
gathering in his eyes. Then he turned
away, and could hear him mnttei
something 10 himself in German. dc
not understand German readily. but
would not he the man he was talking
about for anything in this world.
Later. when I had taken the Grape of
the stable door and had waited year
after the death of Hectic-for he could
not eat anything but kumiss with his
artificial teeth, and so died about six
weeks after his mind failed-l bought
an Indian pony called Hiawatha Eia-