The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-12-12
Continued from last Sunday

feed me and give me water. In the after
noon l was put into the cab. Jerry took
as much pains to see if the collar and
bride fitted comfortably as if he had been
John Manly over again. When the
crupper was let out hole or two, it all
fitted well. There was no checkrein, no
curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle.
What a blessing that was
After driving through the side-street we
came to the large cab stand where Jerry
had said "Good-night." On one side of
this WIDE street were high houses with
wonderful shop fronts, and on the other
was an old church and churchyard,
surrounded by iron palisades. Alongside
these iron rails number of cabs were
drawn up, waiting for passengers; bits of
hay were lying about on the ground ;
some OF the men were standing together
talking some were sitting on their boxes
reading the newspaper; and one or two
were feeding their horses with bits of hay,
and giving them drink of water. We
pulled up in the rank at the back of the
last cab. Two men came round and
began to look at me and pass their re-
marks.
Every good for a funeral" said one.
"Too smart-looking," said another,
shaking his head in very wize way
you'll find out something wrong one of
these fine mornings, or my name isn't
JONES'"
well" said Jerry pleasantly, II suppose
l need not find it out till it finds me out,
Ell? And if so, I'll keep up my spirits a
little longer"
Then there came up broad-faced man,
dressed in great gray coat with a great
gray cape and great white buttons, gray
hat. and blue comforter loosely tied
round his neck his hair was gray, too;
but he was jolly-looking fellow, and the
other men made way for him. He looked
me all over, as if he had been going to buy
me; and then Strengthening himself up
with grunt, he said, Hes the right sort
for you, Jerry don't care what you gave
for him, he'll be worth it." Thus my
character was established on the stand.
This mans name was Grant, but he was
called "Gray Grant," or Governor Grant"
He had been the longest on the stand of
any of the men, and he took it upon him
self to settle matters and stop disputes.
He was generally good humored, sensible
man; but if his temper was little out, as
it was sometimes when he had drunk too
much, nobody liked to come too near his
fists, for he could deal very heavy blow.
The first week OF my life as cab horse
was very trying. had never been used to
London, and the noise, the hurry, the
crowds of horses, carts, and carriages, that
had to make my way through, made me
feel anxious and harassed; but 1 soon
found that 1 could perfectly trust my
driver, and then made myself easy, and
got used to it.
Jerry was as good driver as bad ever
known; and what was better, he took as
much thought for his horses as he did for
himself. He soon found out that | was
willing to work and do my best; and he
never laid the whip on me, unless it was
gently drawing the end of it over my back,
when was to 60 on ; but generally knew
this quite well by the way in which he
took up the reins and belieye his whip
was more frequently stuck up by his side
than in his hand.
In short time and my master under
stood each other, as well as horse and man
can do. In the stable, too he did all that
he could for our comfort, The stalls were
the old-fashioned style, too much on the
slope; but he had two movable bars fixed
across the back of our stalls, so that at
night, and when we were resting, he just
took of our halters and put up the bars
and thus we could turn about and stand
whichever way we pleased, which is
great comfort.
Jerry kept us very clean, and gave us as
much change of food "a he could, and
always plenty of it; and not only that, but
he always gave US plenty of clean fresh
water, which he allowed to stand by us
both night and day, except Of course when
we came in warm. Some people say a
horse ought not to drink all he likes; but
1 know if we are allowed to drink when
we want it we drink only little at a
time, and it does US great deal more
good than swallowing down half bucket
full at time, because we have been left
without till we are thirsty and miserable.
Co., o.or,v,,e will oo honna RI thair haar