The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-07
A Story of the South

O y VI Aftc oOufN.
Eastover Court House" the first ~ ~.
series OF twelve modern novels 10 he mi.
hshed by Harper & Bros. this year IL on,
% the most entertaining of The late hooks
The plot Is simple and natural: the ,barac.
ters not many. but clearly drawn. rhe o,a
Confederate colonel, sulking unreconstrnct
cd, ON his lonely plantation. his brother
the pompous and prosperous gepsal In tha
confidence of the administration with his
beautiful young wife, more fond of fllrta.
tion than of her good rcpute: the gracious
lady Of the older regime In her ruinons
mansion; the hero, the parsimonious son of
spendthrift ancestry, loving not wisely bat
too many; the Englishman and the country
lawyer. are all types of real people easily
recognized They live, act and amuse us
In remote river county in Eastern Yir.
ginia, and bear the distinguished names OF
the "old Dominion. 4" There are horses.
too. that interest the reader aud anecdotes
related in a delicious manner
The lawyers experience with thorough.
bred stock, as he tells It, win bear repeat.
ing: ~ sent or 10 Musquetah and bought
n richly bred mare, sired by sou of Her
nit. With two crosses of Stockwcll on the
dams side. She came and had haren
built for her--not to hide here beauties
for she was as ugly as a mud fence; hu,
queen must have her palace, you know
( Well. in due time she gave birth TO n sor
I and then my rawlings began | left IN,
I office and stayed at home to take car,
Of him. I nursed him through .scours
| very bad case; hernia nearly fatal
| distemper, three times; eczema. slight
! Rheumatic fever, serious; Kick on the hook
| darn near broke his leg; curious sweilinl
under the jaw, no name known, quite bad
and stiele lslocation, racurrent"
The horse doctor mere said he had nevc
seer colt develop so many disorders an,
sci crippled in his forty years at the trade
About March | was feeding ON fodder
| had hauled my last stack of haydn ac
count-to me vet, and every time passe
his cora house / could soc yellow corr
that had raised buiCiug ont of the crack
all on account, and my bill not yet paid
For medicine I had exhausted the 1ru
store, and was buying wholesale from
Richmond house The doctors last Opinion
had been that h. needed tonic. He OF
fcred no diagnosis One morning ! ARCS
enrly, after a night Of thought IN tn
baruyard group of sows, with fat, biarl
'ittlc pigs were Messing around contentcdiS
My pillow horses were coming out TO WORT
They too looked fat and sleek. though
knew the niggerS hardly currie1 them.
negro stepped up TO me: Better lock Il
Buck hams this mawnin,' he said, he walk
mighty funny | opened the door Of th
pGlace, and there he was, off mis- feed a
usual, rough coated, sullen eyed, che hint
leg drawn up. Stihe dislocation 3Saii
Bring him ont ! said, l vent II IN
voodpile and got an axe. When ] cam
back. there sat that red headed horse doctc
In the yard He must have read my II
tentions rightly, for he got down an
pleaded for the colts iifeponted out tn
remarkable history, medically, Of the cast
and touched on the cost Of raising him 5
far. At this grippe1 my axe tighter. FIJI
ally he said that for further services 1
would not charge; that he had gained MOI
knowledge and practice out Of this colt tina
in all his previous life, with his veterinar
course thrown in; that it was Q liher
education for him. ] gave in and We too
breakfast together
'"The colt grew up into great big n
count whale Of q horse that not even Il
nicCcrs would ride. and who'd 1ump al
fence in the cyounty II II led 10 cav
: field. He never had a sick day, hardl
+, after the vet said he'd treat him free. I
wouldn't drive he bust everything vic
, open the only time we tried to pillow hiI
ami we never did catch him till snow; al
! finally traded him for a 7-ycarod mn
. with a big hook aud gall on Der should
and the best trade | ever made.
= The colt came into the possession of Il
Englshman and won the stecplechase
Saratoga, TO the financial advantage of &
: lawyer.
:, The negro dialect. when IT occurs, is ea
and natural. There is some excitement
:, the attempted lynching more in TIN spirit
descriptions of cross country riding and t
races at Saratoga.
Altogether, il is n good picture of tur
=, Southern life IN an old neighborhood, h
= an entertaining book for leisure hour.
= It is the joint production of Henry Bur
ham Boone and Kenneth Brown, unfamili
names, from whom we hope TO hear mol
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