South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-16

speed in the horse. he gave him an
open meadow under the very eye Of
heaven
BY the side Of this meadow lived
man.
Man has his delight in pillaging
and piling things UP. And he is
never happy till these grow into
burden. So. when he saw this new
creature pursuing the wind and
kicking at the sky he said TO him
self: If only I can bind and Sc
cure this horse, 1 can use his broad
back for carrying my loads"
So one day he caught the horse.
Then man put a saddle on the
horses back and a spiky bit in his
mouth. He regularly had hard rub
! bing and scTubbing to keep him tit.
and there were the whip and spurs
TO remind him that it was wrong
TO have his own will.
Man also put high walls round
the horse, lest if left at large in
the open the creature might escape
him. So it came TO pass, that while
the tiger who had his forest re-
manned in the forest, the lion who
had his cave remained in the cave.
the horse who once had his open
meadow came to spend his days in a
stable. Air and ether had reused
in the horse longings for deliver
ance, but they swiftly delivered him
into bondage.
When he felt that bondage did
not suit him, the horse kicked at the
stable walls.
| But this turf his hoofs much more
than 1t hurt the wall. Still some
/ of the plaster came of and the wall
lost its beauty.
Man felt aggrieved.
What ingratitude"! ne cried. DO
I not give him food and drink? Do
not keep highly paid men serv-
I ants to watch over him day and
night? Indeed he is hard TO please"
In their desperate attempts to
| please the horse. the men-servants
fell upon him and so vigorously ap-
piled all their winning methods that
ne lost his power to kick and a
great deal more besides.
Then man called his friends and
| neighbors together, and said to
them exultingly friends, did you
ever see so devoted a steed as mine?
Never! they replied. "He seems
as still as ditch-water and as mild
as the religion you profess"
The horse, as is Well known, had
no horns, no claws, nor adequate
! teeth, at his birth. And, when on
the top Of this, all kicking at the
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I been stopped, the only way to give
vent to his feelings was to neigh.
! But that disturbed mans sleep.
Moreover, his neighing was not
| likely 70 impress the neighbors as a
paean Of devotion and thankfulness.
/ So man invented devices to shut the
/ horses mouth.
But the voice cannot be altogeth-
/ er suppressed so long as the mis-
! take is made Of leaving any breath
in the body. Therefore a spasmodic
sound Of moaning came from his
throat now and then.
One day this noise reached Brah-
mas ears.
The Creator woke up from his
meditation. 1t gave him start
when he glanced at the meadow and
saw no sign Of the horse.
This is all your doing" Cried
Brahma, in anger to Yama, the Cod
of Death. You have taken away the
| horse!
Lord Of all creatures Death re-
| piled: ''All your worst suspicious
you keep only for me. But most Of
the calamities in your beautiful
world will be explained If you turn
your eyes in the direction OF man."
| Braham looked below. He saw a
small enclosure, walled in from
which the dolorous moaning OF his
horse came fitfully
Brahma frowned in anger.
Unless you set free my horse"
said he. 81 shall take care that he
grows teeth and claws like the til
ger"
THAT would be ungodly." cried
man. Ito encourage ferocity. All
the same, if 1 may speak plain truth
about a creature Of your own make,
this horse is not fit 10 be set free.
1t was for his eternal good that I
built him this stable-this marvel
| of architecture"
Brahma remained obdurate.
Il bow 70 your wisdom" said
man, "but if, after seven days, you
still think that your meadow is bet
ter for him than my stable, viii
1 humbly own defeat"
After this man set TO work.
He made the horse go free, but
hobbled his front legs. The result
was so vastly deverting that it was
| enough 10 make even a frog burst
his sides with laughter.
Braham, from the height OF his
heaven. could see the comis gait of
his horse, but not the tragic rope
which hobbled him. He was mortified
10 find his own creature openly ex-
posing its divine maker 20 ridicule.
1T was an absurd blunder Of
mine, he cried, closely touching the
n sublime"
"Grandsire," said man With a pa