Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28


spirited horse, with piercing eye on the
He had lots of pop and enterprise and
high purposes into him, ALSO bright red
nostrils, and he was checked up real high.
The man who sold me this horse said that
he intended settling down and starting a
bank in our town, but he did not There
was some hitch about getting 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 not bear
to look at him. Then he came and cried
into my lap quite a little SPELL
Investigated Hectic's symptoms.
That night the horse was ill all night. A
neighbor told me that Hectic had the collie,
but when put nv hand on the little hot
stomach of nv steed he kicked me across
the plaza and into bed of cacti. 1t hurt
me good deal, especially in my finer feel
ings, It doesn't take much to hurt my
feelings. suppose that it would be verv
difficult, indeed, to mind man who is so
susceptible to kick at the hands of spir-
tied horse as / am.
On the following day a veterinarian from
Leipsic examined Hectic and made quite an
extended report. I am not horse man, so
1 cannot remember what he said, but I
know he said that his hampers were down.
asked him if we could not get them up
again. Iwould do all that could to boom
them through the press and on the street
But he looked at me sadly, and 1 could see
the tears gathering in his eyes, Then he
turned away, and could hear him mutter
something to himself in German. do not
understand German readily, but I would
not be the man he was talking about for
anything in this world.
A Marvellous Indian Pony.
Later, when had taken the Grape off the
stable door and had waited year after the
death of Hectic-for he could not eat any,
thing but kumiss with his artificial teeth,
and so died about six weeks after his mind
Hiawatha- Hiawatha is still alive, though
very few Of his owners are. He belonged
to the Siwash tribe, and had brand on him
which was the crest of Old Soiled Nose, the
chief of the Yaps.
Hiawatha came into our family we'll
recommended by one of the pleasantest ex-
temporaneou3 speakers 1 ever saw. His
home was on Fifty-eighth Street, New York
City, and he dealt in horses just because he
loved them He said that Hiawatha knew
more than lots of men who held Office, and /
never saw man use such an effort to control
himself as this man did when he said good
by to Hiawatha and took the ferry for his
wretched and lonely home. Fortunately,
Hiawatha did not kill any of our family, be-
cause we have a good physician, and he can
save anyone after many other doctors have
given them up. So then 1 sent the pony
back to the owner to board.
forgot to say that neighbor of mine bor-
rowed Hiawatha to ride to hounds once, and
has not spoken to me since. 1 sent the ami
NAL back to board at S12 month, and left
orders with the man to sell, but of course at
$12 month for plain table d'hote board the
sale hangs fire and seems to drag a good
deal. Last week this man wrote me that the
bill was ss4. said was sorry, but would
leave him and Hiawatha to fight it out to-
gether. 1 then did him all the injury I
could without filling his grave with Linn
burger cheese. made him present of
Hiawatha, and wringing his hand 1 came
away. BILL NYE.