Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — A Happy Meeting. [ARTICLE]

A Happy Meeting.

R. B. Cumitnghame Graham, the author of those travelling experiences In the tropics which he calls “Thirteen Stories,” says that in his South American Journeying he one day rode to see a tillage where, report hinted, some valuable old books had been preserved. He adds: “I got lost, and passed the night In a small clearing tftiere a fat and handsome roan horse was tied. On seeing me the animal broke his picket-rope, ran furiously round me four or five times In circles, and then, advancing, put his nostrils close to the nostrils of my horse and seemed to talk to him. His owner, an old Paraguayan, told me that the creature had been with him far into the interior, and for a year had never seen another burse. “ Butr said he, ‘God has given, every animal speech after Its kind, and be Is glad to see your horse. No doubt he is asking him the news.’ "During the night 1 cannot say exactly what the two horses talked about; but In the morning my host rode with me a league upon the way, and when we parted, his horse reared once or twice and plunged. It was a farewell.”