The border vidette., 1928-09-29
FRANK KINGS EULOGY OVER
MUGGlNS

FRANK KINGS EULOGY OVER
MUGGlNS
The following eulogy was de.
livered by Frank M. King at
unique and impressive burial
services for Muggins, the So
year-old COW horse who died
/ last week, says the Farm and
Market Journal of Los Angeles:
1t may seem foolish to some,
that we should pay solemn tri
butte to dead horse, but when
we remem Der that the horse has
been mans able assistant for
/ thousands of years and has come
down through the ages with him
helping to co1quer. civilize and
reclaim the world, we may be
excused at this time for honor
ing one that has done more than
his share in making this old
world a better place to live in.
Horses are like humans.
There are smart, intelligent and
industrious horses the same as
people. A hcrse that is dull
and listless never gets any
where any more than the same
sort of person does. He never
amounts to anything. This ap-
plies especially to Cow Horses,
for they have to know so many
things that only the right kind
ever accomplish much.
Il have broken. trained and
ridden many good ones during
| the days of my COW work on the
cattle ranges of the Southwest
and some Of them we're the best
in their sections, but folks, here
lie the remains Of the very best
one the world ever produced,
The life of this wonderful 80
year old Cow Hoss Muggins..
should be an incentive to any
young boy starting out to make
his way in the world.
Beginning at the tender age
of three, by hard. intelligent and
faithful service be quickly reach
ed front rank and kept his place
as top, all-round COW boss for
III straight years and held his
job with the same big cattle out
fit all that time on the great
Wyoming plains, at a time when
it required nerve and courage in
both man and beast to perform
the work Of those strenuous
days.
There is no record of any
other such COW boss. He will
ingly and cheerfully performed
his duties day in and day out
during the long years of his
service on the range. A neck
reined wonder that never had a
bit in his mouth, a flash of a
cutting hoss.a corral and prairie
roper. demon of determination
in his work, but lovely as baby
when at ease and until his death
Thursday night, the only living
boss that took part in the early
day great cattle and horse round
ups on the Northern plains.
Beautiful of body and mind,
! Muggins was ever in demand for
show and rodeo purposes, where
he always attracted much at
tention with his expert actions.
He took part in the first Rodeo
4 81 years ago at the Big Chey.
enne Frontier Day Rodeo, when
be was 6 years old. He was a
Rodeo enthusiast and took as
much interest in the perform
ance as he did in similar work
on the range.
/ "Muggins has truly helped to
make range history and now that
! be lies here at our feet, soou to
| become a heap of dust, like the
rest of Us will some day be. an
| epoch in that western range his
tory has closed.
'Muggins is dead. Our old
favorite cow boss, that has been
living contentedly at the Los
Angeles Union Stock Yards for
the past two years, was not only
a Top Cow Hoss. but be was one
of the original Rodeo Perform
ers and also a Top Notcher in
that sport. Muggins worried SO
much over the bill that these
here Perennial Prohibitors are
trying to put over to stop Ro