Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1882 — The Kind Horse. [ARTICLE]

The Kind Horse.

A gentleman owned a fine horse which was very fond of him, and would come from the pasture at the sound of his voice and follow him about like a dog. At one time, the horse become lame, and was obliged to stay in his stable and not be used for many weeks. During this time, an old cat made her nest upon the scaffold just above the horse’s manger, and placed there her little family of five kittens. She and the horse got on nicely for some clays. She jumped down into his manger and went off for food, and then came back and leaped up to her kittens again. But one morning she rolled off into the manger with her foot bleeding and badly hurt, so that she could scarcely crawl; but she managed to leap away on three feet and get her breakfast. But, when she came back, she was entirely unable to get to her kittens; and what do you think she did ? She lay down at the horse's feet, and mewed and looked up several times, till, at last, pony, seeming to understand her wants, reached down, took the cat in his teeth, and tossed her up on the scaffold to her kittens, who, I doubt not, were glad enough to see her. This was repeated morning after morning. Kit would roll off into the manger, go out and get her breakfast, come back, and be tossed up to her family by the kind horse, who must have understood cat language and been willing to listen to it.— Western Christian Advocate.