The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-03-24
WHAT THE HORSES MIGHT SAY

WHAT THE HORSES MIGHT SAY
Jim: Good master, there is sore
on my hip. cannot see it, but when
the line rests on it, or the whip hits
1t, 1t gives me great pain. Will you
please see what causes 1t and try to
cure It? 1t may be from a nail in
the floor. Would you also give me
a little thicker bedding? Then try
me without the whip. A few more
oats and little less work will do
more than the whip.
White Face: My master, why did
you strike me on my face today when
my feedbag fell off? did not get
half my dinner, and was it 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 it harder for me by taking
on a 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, gidup?" And when we saw where
we could have better foothold, in
stead Of jerking us from one side Of
the road to the other, why did you
not let us take 1t?
Ned: When I was frightened al
most to death yesterday and tried to
escape, which is just what you would
have done in such a fright, did it
make me less frightened to be
whipped, and yelled at, and cursed
for 1t? You only made it harder for
me, when a kind, gentle word and a
soothing touch of your hand would
have quieted me and made 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 IL on a cold winter morning you
would warm the bits before putting
them in my mouth should feel much
more comfortable. I once knew a
master who always did that for his
horses and they appreciated it.
Lady: Will you please, kind mas
ter, loosen my check rein, especially
when l am going up hill? All horses
could keep up their gait longer and
more easily if check reins were
looser. Please try it when I go out
again with the carriage.
Old Jerry: You have been good
master to me for many years, and I
have tried to be faithful to you. But
/ am old now and feeble and must
soon die. I'want to thank you for
all your kindness and am sure you
will do as we'll by your other horses
as you have by me. We horses ap-
preciate kind treatment, and each
one of us wishes to do the very best
he can for his master, and the kinder
care he receives the better he can
work Although the Heavenly Faith
er has denied us the power of hui
man 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 gentle pat, kind word, or
lump of sugar. We are not with
out affection for those who are good
to us, and I wish that every man
would treat his animals so that he
could truthfully say
THAT mercy to others 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 Jerry.-Mrs. L..
M. Hills, in Our Dumb Animals.