Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1889 — Equine Hospitality. [ARTICLE]

Equine Hospitality.

Billy, a horse attached to a police patrol station in Boston has become known throughout the Hub by its liberality. A member of the mounted squad w r hile answering roll-call ties his horse to the post forming one comer at the head of Billy’s stall, and as soon as the animal is fastened Billy picks up a mouthful of hay, forces it through the iron grating about his stall, and waits until his guest lias eaten it. Then he repeats the operation and continues his hospitality until the officer returns for his horse. Billy began to do this early in the fall, without any suggestion from the men, and he does it twice a day, much to the satisfaction of his visitor. Mistbess (severely)—Biddy, is that man who comes to see you so often vour husband ? Biddy No, mum. But Father Mulcahey says he ought to be.