Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — A Horse’s Memory. [ARTICLE]

A Horse’s Memory.

“ About nineteen years ago Dr. Walton bought a pair of chestnut sorrel horses for s,'>oo,'’ said Tom Felts, “ and after keeping them a short time he sold one of them for $l5O to Mr. Teaslov. I bought him from Mr. Teasley for $15(1, and for nine years that horse and I livod together nearly all tho time.

“ Fart of the time 1 livod in tho country, and one rainy night tho loft of the stable, with sixty-five barrols of corn in it, foil in and pinned that horse down to tho ground so that he could hardly move. I did not hoar tho crash, but I afterwards found out it occurred about midnight. Next morning I went out to tho stable, and it nearly broke my heart to see the horse that 1 loved better than anybody or anything in this world in such a fix. lie lay perfectly' still and I thought ho was dead, and I couldn't help crying. After a while wo got him out, and 1 just know from tho way lie rubbed his nose against me that lie knew how much 1 loved him and how 1 hud suffered to see him pinned down to tho ground that way with sixty-five barrels of corn on top of him. “ About ten years ago I sold the horse to Stirling Walker and ho promised not to sell him any' more. But after he h.-.d kept him a long time he traded him to a man up in .Springfield, who afterward sold him at public auction down here on tho square. A man named Griggs, in North Nashville, bought him, and now I’m going to tell y'ou something funny. “Day r before yesterday I was passing along Buem Vista street, when 1 saw a horse standing on tho other side of the street. I wasn’t thinking about anything in particular, and just walked on. First thing I knew that horse had crossed the street and was rubbing his nose against mo. ’Twas my old horse, and he hadn't seen me in ten years. But he had remembered me.”—[Nashville American.