Year: 1873

II any worse 10y nature than bay horse,
or u white horse, or horse Of any color
or combination Of colors but our judg.
ineBt Of things ~ this world IL often liza
bic 10 he influenced by our preiudiccs.
For this reason, perhaps, cannot look
npon yellow horse with any feelings OF
delight


A yellow horse was standing at the
depot in Washington at the time came
down the Shepang road. Looking at
hind foot for his owners brains, nv
mini receded back TO the home OF my
childhood.


It seemed so blessed TO lean back in
the seat, aud, with partly closed eyes.
give myself up To reVeries Retrospective.
remember quite distinctly the day
my parent brought home yellow horsr:
in fact, ] can without difficulty pick any
day uf the eight which that animal pass
ed III our society. lie was conely
beast, with long limbs, straight body,
aud eyes that wOald rival those OF an
eagle IN looking hungry.


When he came into the yard we all
went out 10 look at him. IL was even
| ing, clear, bright, and beautiful. Nv
parent stood near the well, holding the
ANIMAL by halter. We hid dog-a
black aud whIte--and if there was ever
dog who thought he had head stow
ed full of knowledge, it was that dog.


How plainly could see him approach
that yellow horse, TO smell of his heels.
He ought to have got more than he did,
considering that he lost the greater part
Of one ear in the attempt. Il was done
So quick that it is possible we would not
have known anything about it, had the
dog not spoken of it himself.


He never smelt Of that yellow horse
again, the hdvor wasn't what lac had been
used To, think.


Three days later, when lie was turning
around To speak to IA flea, as is custo!na,
ry with dogs, that yellow horse uncxpec-
teddy reached down, and took "A mouth
tiul of spinal joints out of the dogs back,
and the modification of beuIg thus
caught preyed So heavily upon the dogs
mind that he died IN IA minute or two.


That evening mother interested father
with an account of Caper's death while
he was waiting Tor her 10 replace the
collar the yellow horse that afternoon
bad snatched from his best coat.


AHd thus time passed. But the horse
lost none of ii. There wasn't y neigh
Dor within half mile of our house bat
bore some mark Of that animals friend
ship. Like death, he was no respec,er
of pers )ns. He never stopped to inquire
whether a man was worth million or
ten cents when he was reaching tor him.
lie may have had some curiosity about
it af;erward, but he never showed i.
Finally people came TO avoid him when
they met him on the street. | don't
think they did i, purposcly. bat it seem
through the first doorway, or over the
most convenient fence when they saw
him approach.


This inexpliUable dread communicated
itself To the very dogs on the street
but before they had come to fairly M
derstand him, he had succeeded in reduc-
ing the price of winter breakfast luxu-
ry to almost a mere song.


After that they looked up 10 him with
the respect exacted by Hindoo god
with Two changes OF underrlothes, aud
no dog within lhree blocks ut US would



think of going TO sleep ut night without
first coming over TO see if that horse
was locked up. II was instinct, probably.


My parent never enjoyed single day
ol the eight that he was The sole posses
sor of that animal lie nipped away
some portion of him every onve in "A
while. My pareut was not n protaae
man, but he was sorely tempted 10 be,
every hour in the day.


There was only one per, on who had
anything to do with that animal that
came uu' of the fiery ordeal unscathed.
He was the hired man, and his saliva
lion AS owing to misfortune. He
was croSs.eyed. lie WAS Il great source
OF misery To that yellow horse. The
mstorlnaiion oi his eyes was calculated
to deceive even smarter beings. The
beast kicked AT him few times when lie
was evidently looking the other way
but that was just the lin" he was bear
ing one eye strongly on him, and he miss
ed and when he really was not looking
was Just the time the beast thought he
was, and so il went through the entire
eight DAYS, both stomach and heel:
yeaming for morsel of him, but never
y


getting II.


lam sure there was never such horsc
TO kick and bite. He did II So uneXpect'
edlv, too. He would be looking strar'
ger square in the face, apparently abon'
TO communicate some Information %
value, and then ud1enly lift his hinC
foot, and fetch them an unsophisticaIe1
rap ON the head that would make hin
see seventy.fve dollars worth OF fire
works in minute.


He would bite at anything whether
he reached it or not bnt in kicking he
rarely missed. lie could use any leg
with facility, but pridsd himself lnainly
on the extraordinary play OF the leil
hind leg. With that limb he woulc
break up political meeting in five min
ules, and kick over the entire plan o
the campaign before tho last man got Il
the door.


The very air about our place was i'm
pregnated with camphor aud variou'
new kinds of lniments. The neighboIr
came around after dark and howled FOL
= the blood ot that yellow horse like Sc
many indians clamoling for pint o
New England potash.


Matters commenced to assume n criti
cal form. The people wanted the AM
Imal killed and cut open so they coul'