The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-12
RIDER HAGGARD's HORSE.
Pathetic End of the NoveIisfs Beau-
tifnl Animal.

When lived in Africa (he says / had a
horse called Moresco, Il very remarkable
beast, OF great speed, endurance and sure
d fooIedness. This creature waS 50 clever
that have known him 10 resort to extra
ordinary aruices 10 obtain food. such IS
lying down and wriggling himself upon bia
side underneath a wagon Til he could
reach the sack where the meaIies were
kept. and gnaw 4 hole In 81 with hts teeth
Then. still lying On his side. he devoured
most OF .ae contents. Also once Re broke
open q door 20 get AZ the forage stored be-
hind t. When l was travelling with him
on clFcui; through New Scotland, the great
horse breeding district or the Trausvaai.
reseo enc night broke the rein with
Y which he was tied 10 TIE wagon and made
off after a troop OF mares. We searched
fer him without avail and az length. as {;
was absolutely necessary that we should
open court In a certain town on - fixed
day. We were obliged 20 abandon him.
think II VAS three mornings afJerward that
! got out OF the wagon al daylight TO find
Moresco standing united among the other
horses. As roads in South Africa in those
days were nothing hur tracks wandering
hither and thither across the weld. Of which
We had crossed many during the time that
he was lost. I can only suppose taat the
horse when he tired ~ the company OF the
mares, had deliberately taken Up our spo0r
and followed IL til he found US year or
two afterwari Moresco was stolen from
Newcastle. In Natal. whore l was then Mv-
ing, and for six months we mourneA him as
lost beyond redemption One day, however
the poor creature, consisting Of nothing bu.
skin and bnes with a dreadful hole through
his wlthers. produced ny neglected sore
bs tx, was found wandering about upon the
farm. Subsequent Inquiries went 70 shaw
that the man who had stolen M3fesco had
ridden hin s1tn TIE Care Colony. nearly Il
thousand miles away. and that thence no
had escaped and found & path back 10 h.s
home.
The end OF this horse. che most remark
able taat ever knew. was SO pathetic that
w.n tell 1t. He vas what !s called a eaIte1
horse, that IS to say. he had survived she
INCONSISTENCIES. ard x vas supposed, ,l3gre-
fore. that he woU.a not catch K aSaia.
This, however. proved - Be al error. IN
deed. my experience goes TO s31W that very
few horses are 50 thoroughly sal;ed that
they viii not reaevel0p the sickness ges-
orally n q different form. ur3er nondl, ions
favorable - that disease. Narescats state
whsn he escaped from the chief ln the Cape
Colony was such 'rst Had he beeu any
other animal 7 gh1u3l 1axe saint h.TD. As
IA cid favorlte ard companion, 70 vas kers
and rurze.3 however. In Glss hope taat he
might ultimately recover. Estf 1ssI. tAe
year - the Boo @5F was a dreadful sg2-
s3a for sickness. ! Fers}er 1Cer raat we lost
G23sg worth uf horses f9 sr lu a single Xeek.
A. last she plague seized up,ya Folr old
Niaresco also. We dlA w~E, We c9lif fer
him wHfce waa f.t5Ie araEg- Ffr tno8gh
animals occasionally recover a9ere go np
real remedy for sarge-sr knees ag1 ther
7verr Obliged 80 leave uum IS sake h%
chance A. +he hsek az uv hofse ~ Bool
point stood wa,t - .oc-- er1rs ass1 &
four feet ~. w3th a ga .G !t wht~a VAS
zhut In the evening Ah7H' in.asiEn' we