Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — Disappointed Horse. [ARTICLE]

Disappointed Horse.

That a horse, in spite of his “horse sense,” can be pitifully deceived by appearances was demonstrated in a telling manner. A young woman was waiting patiently for a car going east, when a horse and wagon owned by a huckster stopped almost before her. The horse, a friendly looking animal, gradually edged up to the curb near the young woman, who smiled graciously and patted him on the nose. As the car approached she walked slowly toward the track and was waiting for the car door to open when the friendly animal slipped up behind her, and with a sudden plunge grasped the bunch of green leaves from her new hat. After a brief tussle with hat pins and yellow curls, the horse managed towrest the hat from the young woman and marched off chewing what he evidently thought a meal of fine green. The horse chewed the milliner’s painted leaves, and finding them not to his taste dropped the hat, which was returned to its owner.—Milwaukee Journal.