Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-18
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FULKERSON.

ooh, OH said Imogene, turning away from
the window, and putting her hands over her
face, ANDREW, come here and look at this man
whipping this horse"
mix on that stuff" said Andrew, 81 will NOT
look because he is probably bigger than am
and if | looked would go out after him and
he would lick me as we'll as the horSe
81 cannot understand some people" sighed
Imogene. "How that man could hit that horse
is mystery to me-"
"Well,' said Andrew, 81 often wonder what
horses and dogs thinks of people IS easy
enough to know what a man thinks OF morse
or a dog, but it would be right embarrassing
at times for an owner to know what MS faithful
four-footed servant thought OF him.
"More than once l have seen horse that
could trace his blood back through the nobility
of horsedom to ancestors who slept beside
kings ara those blood was no less pure than
that OF thosy masters who were placed in the
care and subject to the whim of men whose
ancestors were swinging by their tails on
Jungle tree when the horSes's ancestors were
hobnobbing with princes and potentates.
Gust what such horse would think of such
man is not hard to conjecture. Just what the
owner of that horse would be thinking of to
place him in charge of such man is another.
"Wouldnt it be interesting to get the opin-
ion of such a horse of the man who owns him
and the man who beats him when the owners
back is turned?
"How often do you suppose horse with the
best blood of the Blue Grass region of Ken
lucky has been Soured and turned into biting,
kicking rogue through his disgust at the kind of
people he has been compelled to associate with
in the stable?
"Wouldnt you like to hear what blue blooded
collie, whose forbearS show registration in the
bue-bIooded families clear back to the time
when Scotland had king, has to say about
man who will soap him, tie him up in the
stable and turn hose on him.
personally, would rather have the good
opinion of a poodle than the good opinion OF
the fat lady with the flock of double chins who
wears him on the end of string.
IT know that blooded bulldog Is more of
a gentleman than the snarling two-lcgged bruteS
who take him into barn at midnight and
watch him chew the ear off of another of his
kind.
81 think the good opinion of Boston terrier
or a fox terrier would be more to my credit
than that of man who slices the ears Of the
former, or cuts the tail of the latter.
"But be that as it may there is nothing which
would please me one-half so much as to be
able to break into bench show or horse
show where the gods had commanded owners to
silence and had endowed the dogs and horses
with speech.
~ would love to listen to Dainty be-rib-
honed dog, tell how the mistress, who now
hovers over her so lovingly in public, has
stayed at tea and then gone to the theater while
Dainty stayed home without bite to eat or
thing to drink.
ut would be interesting to hear that high
stepping thoroughbred explain his restessness
was due to blackstone under his blanket which
the rider leans back on when they wish him to
appear spirited
That's the one thing that reconcles me to
the automobile. If the owner gets peeved and
hits it with monkey wrench he hurts his own
pocketbook."
Copyright, 1922, by 2tst Century Press, lnc)