Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-05-27

brute! Unhiteh the chains there:
don't you see the ould horse is
chokin ?'
Little do l card if he dies, said
Tom, as he ungraciously assisted in
extricating him. Here 1t is comm
night, an this load stuck here in the
middle of the road all on account
of that old brute
It's the fault o. yer feyther, it is:
for if he'd be dom the right thing
by old Dobbin he'd give i'm the run
o. the pasture for the rist of his
days widout a bit of the work to do.
It's goin' on twinty years since ne
was broke to the harness, an that's
afore you was horned" said Mike.
Come, old fellow. get up?"
and he assisted the old horse to his
feet.
Hello, there. what's up?" shouted
the driver of a team that had come
up behind.
Sure, an it's stuck in the mud We
are" said Mike.
An it's glad we are to see We.
Mr.. Tracy, if yen give us a pull at
the ind O the tongue wild thin beau
tiful horses o. yourn."
"Ah it's Shane's team" said Mr..
Tracy, and old Dobbin has been
Town. Shane never will learn when
horse is used up. He's had twenty
years good service out of that horse
and isn't satisfied yet. That's a good
load for four horses over such roads
as these"
That's true" said Mike, but
Shane niver sinds four horses to do
the work he can get out of two"
Mr.. Tracy's team was soon hitched
to the end of the tongue, and the four
horses easily pulled the wagon out
of the mud.
THE old horse is winded," said
MIR. Tracy, and can never pull that
load home. It's shame to treat
faithful old horse in that manner.
You had better pull out to the side
of the road, and come back in the
morning with IA better team"
Mr.. Tracy's advice was taken, as
it was evident that old Dobbin was
about used up.
About twenty-five years previous
to this time John Shane had moved
to Indiana, and had bought a small
farm, on which he built saw mill;
md by running the mill in winter
md farming in summer he had added
to his possessions until he was now
the owner of two hundred acres of
fine farm land He had been a hard
working man, and was now consid-
cred a well-equipped and prosperous
farmer. He was a hard man to deal
with, and always aimed to make
dollar where other people made a
dime.
1t was fayorite maxim of his
that nothing should stay on the farm
that did not more than pay ex-
penses.
There was not beast or fowl on
the farm but what his careful eye
was on it, and everything must bring
in money or its fate was sealed.
Avarice held full sway over his
mind, and there was no room in his
nature for kindness. Everything on
the place felt the effects of his ill
his family did not al
ways escape. His son Tom had, to
great degree, absorbed his fathers
although a good boy at
heart. A boys character is often
ruined by his early training, and
Tom was guilty of many acts of
cruelty to dumb animals which he
did not know were wrong, simply
because his father had set him that
kind of example. He did not know
that he was violating any rule of hu-
mainly by such acts because his
thoughts had not been directed in
that channel.
Altogether the animals on Shane's
farm had a pretty hard time of it.
There were two redeeming characters
on the farm, however, and they were
Mrs. Shane and her daughter Edith.
Invariably kind and gentle, their
righteous indignation would some
times get the better of their judg-
ment, and they would speak their
minds about the cruelties practised
by father and son. They would usu-
ally meet with the reply that "Wo-
men had better keep still about
things that don't consarn EN-"
And John Shane said, "Nothin made
him madden than for woman to
interfere when he was dealin' with
his animals"
Tom, having arrived at home, and
put the horses in the stable, came in
to the house, just as the family were
sitting down to the supper table.