Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — A Hairless Horse. [ARTICLE]

A Hairless Horse.

Now and thei a very curious specimen is found among the deseit horses of Australia, writes a traveler. The oddest of these that I ever taw was a huge, ungainly beast, without a hair upoa i l . It was cut out of a wild herd and roped in by a station hand, who sold it for a drink and a plug of tobacco to some man. The latter tamed the hairless taught it a few commonplace tricks and showed it all over the colonies. He ~was said to have taken in SIOO,OOO. The horse had no wane, but a high neck ar d crest. Its skin was perfectly smooth and shiny, and a dark mottled brown in color. I r is to a woman that (he h°art appeals when it needs coaso’.atiun.