Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1912 — Whistler’s Horse Trade. [ARTICLE]

Whistler’s Horse Trade.

Boggs, a cadet officer at West Point, was an assistant in the riding hall. On one occasion he overheard Whistler (the famous artist, then a cadet), who thoroughly disliked to ride, objecting strenuously to the horse brought for his use. The horse, he argued, was too heavily built and mueh too large for a man of his size. Whistler, with much vehemence, urged the man next to him to "swap.” The man with whom he wished to exchange horses was of muscular build, and of a “pretty generous size,” and his horse was a light-weight animal, which seemed to Whistler to make it a mostfltting exchange. “Oh, don’t swap, don’t swap, Mr. Whistler,” cried the dragoon, "yours is, a war horse.*’ “A war horse,” exclaimed Whistler. “That settles it; I certainly don’t want him.” "Yes, you do,” reiterated the man. “He’s a war horse, I tell you, and he’d rather died than run.”