The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-10-06
The Mare Shows Up
Faulkner
~ HAROLD siNcLAIRE.


spur q horsef Your. Joking. cir
Yes. ! wear spur. becaus. ! ride with
my heels out aud my toes In bur u
you'll look again. sir. you'll SEQ that
there's no rowcls Ia them. Same way
with my whip Its rcs,ful like Tor III.
hand. and Id touch my horses Hank
with the handle end. 10 signal him.
hut as for hitting him-why. there
sin't no animal NOR. willing than a
horse. nor one with more human intel.
ligence or more anxious 20 please. 10
you treat him right.
Yes. ] suppose u II u gift, this I'M
derstanding ~ horses. WOm.nl Bet.
ter than men. I should say-that IL,
some men understand horses. but pref.
~ near every woman who likes them
gets To know them. That's what
| liked about Miss MillIcent. Came ~
hors. family. kentucky born. and
what she didn't know about horses
why. she'd talked horse since III. was
| Q baby. aud her father. Colonel Emery.
owned ~. finest stud In Lexington.
| Miss Millicent ws~ brought up with
the Idea that q man who couldn't ride
was only half masculine. And riding's
more than sticking on and waving the
rcins up aud down or clicking TO say
ego faster"
| I guess that click was what first put
me wise TO Faulkner. Finely made
mnn d. was. fine clothes. though some.
7 a..
| ilc-nt certainly took 10 him.
And ~ mister. when I heard Faulk.
ner clicking under his breath to
Beauty. I said to myself: you'd be
more Ia place driving butchers wag-
on than taking Miss Miliicent riding"
lie rod. Beauty On the curb-her NJ
wouldn't have hurt n fiy. 50 sweet.ten.
4 pered she was and gentle. And her
mouth Lord. he sawed like a butcher !!
Miss Milllcent had been sweet on
/ young Mr.. Drew. and he ON her. before
Faulkner appeared on the scene.
| I couldn't see Faulkner hurting
Beauty and cutting out Mr.. Drew with.
cut taking some steps to stop him.
| puzzled long time over II. see
Mr. Drew getting mopier and mopi"r.
I went into town 10 see the circus one
night and who should I meet at IN.
tent door but my old friend Jim Haynes
with his trick mare. I, seemed Ike
Providence.
Il cant sell you Nancy" he said
Hut Id lend her TO you. What's the
game"
When I told him he swor. he
wouldn't take any money. II was n
good ns q play. he said. and he hoped
Id tell him all about IL the next day.
| Can't let you have Beauty to-day.
sir" I told Mr.. Faulkner the next
morning. "She's a little on her feed.
cir. Hut I've . nice little mare here
quiet as a babe and At for n lady"
Mr.. Drew" says I that same morn.
Ing. IF you was 10 take little ride
out to Holmes Height about eleven
O'Clock. maybe I, wouldn't come
amiss."
He grinned. II don't quite follow
you. but I'm on. Hicks" he says. And
- I saddled my little MARI and rode
out with Miss Millicent and Faulkner,
and fell behind. ~ . groom ought ia
when his young lady has q beau.
| fell q good ways behind that day,
and when We reached Holmes Height
they had disappeared over the rise.
knew Faulkner would Just about have
GOT up courage 10 try his spurs by the
| "a. el..L uxl AAA
sure enough. hardly had I got TO the
top when I heard Miss Millicen,
scr.aming-not with fear. but with
laughter.
There sat Faulkner. clin4ing to the
mares neck with both hands. his fee,
working like windmilis. and the little
mare going round and round and round
in a lot a. big as a circus ring. His
coat tails was flying. and he was swear
ing and hollering. and presently he
few over the mares neck and she
stopped stock stiil aud watched him
land In a pool 81 the sticklest mud
anywhere In the nelghborhood. And
Just at that minute Mr.. Drew comes
riding along and stops and picks
Faulkner out Of the mire. Hut h.
wouldn't get on the mares back any
more. Sc Mr.. Drew sees Miss Milli
cent home. and Faulkner and | fol
lows. me leading the mare and hin
walking. But I noticed Miss Mill'cen'
AMI Mr.. Overwhelming inward on 'heiI
saddles again like they used To.
That's all. cir. except this GOLD
watch MIR. Drew gave me the da,
they were married. II understand
Hicks" she said "a me. And what a.
you think she cid, II she didn't pu
her hands In mine and cry with hap
piness. Yes. me. sir. I'm her hea'
coaehman now. but when Miss Ma,
gets q little older I'm going 10 TAX
her riding and teach her 10 hands
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