The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-03-10
WHAT SOME HORSES SAID
BY Mrs. L. M. Hills


This is what some horses said to
their masters at the close of the days
work:
Jim: Good master, there is sore
on my hip. / cannot see 1t, but
when the line rests on it, or the whip
hits it., it gives me great pain. VIII
you please see what causes 1t and
try to cure it? It may be from a
nail in the floor. Would you also
give me little thicker bedding?
Then try me without the whip. A
few more oats and a little less work
do more than the whip.
White Face: My maser, why did
you strike me on my face today when
my feed-bag fell of? I did not get
half my dinner, and was 1t my fault
or yours that it was not properly
fastened on?
Star: When you send me out on
the grocery team tomorrow will you,
please, tell the boy who drives me,
not to make 1t harder for me by
taking on number Of boys, using
the whip all the time, and fairly
racing me over my route?
Sam: Master, when Tom and /
were doing our very best to draw
that heavy load up that steep hill,
why did you continually jerk the
reins, whip us and keep calling gid
up" gid-up?" And when we saw
where we could have better foot
hold, instead of jerking US from one
side of the road to the other, why
did you not let us take it?
Ned: When | was frightened al
most to death yesterday and tried to
escape, which is just what you would
have done in such fright, did it
make me less frightened to be whip
ped, and yelled at, and cursed for
Il it? You only made it harder for
me, when kind, gentle word and
soothing touch of your hand would
have quieted me and make me feel
that you were my friend and would
have saved me from danger. Why,
my master, did you not give them?
Dick: | do not like to complain,
but if on a cold winter morning you
would warm the bits before putting
them in my mouth, l should feel
much more comfortable. | once
knew master who always did that
| for his horses and they appreciated
| it.
Lady: Will you please, kind mas
ter, loosen my checkrein, especially
, when | am going up hill? All horses
could keep up their gait longer and
more easily If checkreins were looser.
Please try it when go out again
with the carriage.
| Old Jerry: You have been good
master to me for many years, and
have tried to be faithful to you.
But | am old now and feeble and
must soon die. / want to thank you
for all your kindness and am sure
you will do as well by your other
horses as you have by me. We horses
appreciate kind treatment, and each
one of us wishes to do the very best
he can for his master, and the kinder
care he received the better he can
work. Although the Heavenly Father
has denied us the power of human
speech, we have a language Of our
own, and so we talk over our masters
and our daily lives with each other,
and we are glad, always, to tell of a
gentle pat, a kind word, or lump
of sugar. We are not without affec-
ton for those who are good to us,
and wish that every man would
treat his animals so that he could
truthfully say
"That mercy / to other show
That mercy show to me-"
Good night, dear master. A few more
nights and you will mercifully help
me across to that other shore where
no morning call of yours can reach
the ears of old Jery.-Our Dumb
Animals.