Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Almost Human, [ARTICLE]

Almost Human,

We take the following from the Massachusetts Ploughman: Farmer William H. Ellis, of Bloomingburg, N. Y„ owns a little white mare called 'Whitefoot. . Every school-day morning Whitefoot hauls Mr. Ellis’ two little girls in a wagon to the school house, a mile from home, and after leaving the children there the little mare turns round and trots back to her master’s house without any driver. When the school-dosing hour approaches, Mr. Ellis hitches Whitefoot up and starts her off alone for the school house and in due time she comes back with the little girls. She is so careful and expert in passing vehicles on the road that she has never had a collision or damages her harness. On Sunday night last Mr. Ellis’ hired mon drove Whitefoot over to Middleton on his way to New York. Before embarking on the cans here he tacked a piece of paper on the wagon seat containing this notice: “Don’t stop this mare. She belongs to William H. Ellis, Bloomingburg, and w’ill go home all right,” and then, turning the mare’s head homeward, he let her go. Sure enough, she covered the distance, a long nine miles, in safety, and at a pace that brought her home in about an hour.