The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-05
How Jimmie
Kept His Horse
BY r. A. mitchell.

Jimmie, there's nothing to eat in
the house. You've got to sell Ginger"
NAV, can't do 1t. That horse and
| me is like brothers"
But we can't starye, and the horse
is all there is left"
Jim and his mother lived in a
new town on the bank of the Missis-
sippi river. The population was varie-
gated, excitable and believed in the
future of the town, which was called
Jones City after its founder. Jim was
fifteen years old and born with a
predisposition to horsehesh. Some one
had given him a colt, which he had
traded for mare, and after number
of other trades Ginger, the apple of
Jim's eve. was acquired.
Jim left his mother and went out
to the river bank, exceedingly sor-
rowful. The mighty stream rolled fif-
ty feet below. Jim was so disconso-
late that he thought of ending his
troubles by jumping into the water.
But it couldn't end them, because he
could swim like duck and was sure
that when 1t came to drowning he
would paddle ashore.
Anyway he was opposed to the jump
without taking Ginger with him. Gin
ger would back. But he might blind
fold the horse and he would go over
without knowing it. The more the
boy thought Of the matter thestronger
grew in him a desire to take that leap
on Ginger's back-not now for sui.
cidal purposes, but because it would
be daring feat. II he announced his
OF doing so what a crowd
would collect to see the leap! Every
one in Jones City would turn out.
There were 1900 persons I'm the
town. Now, suppose every man, wo-
man and child could be made TO pay |
80 cents TO see the show. That would |
be $500. Ginger wouldn't bring more
than $50 at most
What an idea! /
Having got into Jim's head, he
'ouldn't get IL out. IL buzzed and siz-
led. but IL stuck Jim thought he
would try 20 see what he could do with
Singer blindfolded. He tied hand.
asrchief around the horses eyes.
him and tried to make him Z
%. The experiment for awhile fail
d. but so great was the animals con-
denoe in bis master that he soon be- !
anne reconciled 10 walking IN the dark
While Jim guided him. Then he would =
onsent 10 trot slowly. And so by de-
rees Jim got him 10 move quite rapid
: under the handkerchief
BY this time the idea had bloomed I'm :
be boys brain. The bluff from which /
e thought OF jumping was perpendic- o
lar and the water beneath It forty 2
ct deep. Jim considered the danger !
, be that the horse IN his struggle b
light injure his rider. He didn't think 7
iuch OF any other danger. II was en- -
rely a matter Of nerve. q
one DAY Jim appeared IN a pool room \
az showed n paper under the nose q y
le proprietor. Il contained a state
ent that Jim Hawkins proposed for
600 to jump On his horse Ginger OF !,
i bank into the river in front of the !,
wn. The proprietor looked NJ Jim i
n making a mental estimas- for his Al
lfin. then, taking up pen, signed for m
IS. Jim left the place with subscrip. -
ans for over $500. and before nirht Or
2 whole amount had been subscribed =
vas stipuisted that the money vas
he placed IN the hands - Mr. Jones. =
10 ueid a. gim's mother. for Il y'as
I considered probable that Jim would
ne out ~ the stunt alive A
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