The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06
Meditations OF a Horse.


man who owns me say to another
man to whom he was trying 10 sell
me the other day That. am only 8
years old, but there is lie out some
where because / can recollect back
IL years and l wasn't a spring colt
even then.
l have been hearing q good deal
from time to time about mon having
souls and horses having none. 1t
may be that is correct, but want
to say that would hate to have the
sort Of soul that the man has who
owns me. Say, II common house
fly were to get one bite out of that
soul Of his there wsuldp't be thing
left of 1t. And yet he does good
deal of talking about religion tou.
One winter night when had to
stand out In the storm while the sleet
froze all over me l heard that man in
there by the fire praying SO that he
was nearly lifting the roof. They
were having a class meeting and the
preacher was saying something about
what a grand thing ii would be II the
world was fl led with people just
like brother jones, that is, tho man
who owns me-
l peeped through the window to
see whethe; the preacher was grin
ming behind his hand when he said
1t, but he looked as II he really
meant 1t. l came to the conclusion
that there was one preacher who
was easily fooled. II all the world
was filed with men like Jenes IL
would be mighty tough on horses all
right, all right.
Furthermore, If heaven is filled
up with men like him then l am glad
that horses can't get In. Say, it
would certainly be hell for horses If
they had TO stay forever and ever
with people like Jones.
zone day In the spring Jones
hitched me up to the pillow along with
another horse. We had had pretty
tough winter of IL for Jones didn't
care to waste much feed on US when
corn was worth 10 cents per bushel
and hay Sl2 ton, l heard him tell
a neighbor that he was roughlng his
stock through the winter on account
of the high price Of feed. He had
sold all his corn and nay when 1t got
up In price.
"There was once when he certainly
told the truth when he said that he
was roughing US through. II he had
fed US better we would have been able
to do good deal more blowing In the
spring. l could have told him that If
had been able to talk 10 his language |
but suppose that he would have con
sldsred that was only a fool horse
aud didn't know what 1 was talking |
about.
"Well, he hltched US onto the piow |
and turned us into tough soa. We
we're too weak to pull the pillow right
along, but he beat US with club and
made US pull 1t anyway. l thought
when he was whacklng me over the
ribs with that club about what the
fool preacher said about wishing that
ths world was filed with men like
Brother Jones. f..s,
"But the worst Of 1t didn't come
that day. He put harness on me
that didn't fit aud after awhile my
shoulders were both blistered and by
nj. hit they were raw. You never were
4 horse and had to work with raw
shoulders suppose? Well, all l wish
10 far as 10 les is concerned is that
sometlme he may be turned into a
horse and have to pull pillow when
his shoulders are raw.
INC, 1 will take that back. 1 was
going to say that 1 wanted to be
surned into man and be allowed to
work Jones. the horse, Maybe 1
do a thing to him. But II l
did woul1 be as mean as Jones is
now and when 1 was turned back into
B hsrse would get 1t worse than
ever.
ZONES has a boy. 1 really, dou't
think that the boy means TO DO orn-
cry and mean; he just hasn' t any more
sense than to do as he does. But af-
ter have been working all day that
BOY will hitch me up to the buggy
Ind drive me to town and get bis girl
Ind take her buggy riding. The girl
sn't bad girl at heart but she has
40 more sense than ysung Jenes. So
hey drive me half the night on hot
Iummer nights when 1 am 90 tired
hat am ready to drop.
II will soy for mysslf that 1 am a