Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — Jenny and Her Master. [ARTICLE]

Jenny and Her Master.

A gentleman who has never owned any other horses than those he raised himself , and who seems to appreciate their proud and tender natures, so swift to resent an injury yet so responsive-to kindness, tells some incidents about his little; bay mare, Jenny, a “high-strung,” nervnha creature, who, under rough treatment, would probably have turned out vicious, if not unmanageable. She is very quick in- ker resentments aijd will not bear a touch of the whip,'even from him, fond as pshe is of him. She has never been struck but three or four times in her life, and then did something to revenge herself; and -would even now, thpugh very old, overturn or run away with the person who should inflict such an outrage upon her. The only smart blow she ever received -was from a physician. Who borrowed her togo a- few miles, and, wishing to seem ‘ftitespirate hasted while passing the house to I arrival doctor, ‘gave her a cut, whereupon she' wbMed quick .as dighrtaing, Jke then-stood Sfifl SUmyedTiim. **Tt‘sßeme’d tcitoe no 'vreMusfieSs,” Msaid Jenny’s master, “ but She Was simply’indignant at a blow; she took it as a& inwdt?’ I ( , •; .On‘e csrious thing he tells about her is that she will never draw a haycart; neither will her colt, On no account will either of them mpye; no coaxing or ar guing will induce them, and, of course, blows are out of the question. The family are divided ip opinion as to the reason,, some .insisting that something about the feart frighteefe' the animals, while - the othefs'assert that; befngusedto a carriage, they fqel above it; for why should not pride as conseqfteuceof beibg frightened and run- : 'Of the wagOh penea depth that frtree wAstreqnfred to draw it but. She suffered, agonies from the fearful wound, and, by the time that had been careijdjy treated anfl was showing symptoms of healing, she seemed like one on the verge of brain fqyer. She could not sleep, and her great, piteous eyes were turned appealingly foi;' -help-. Just atthi? crjgis, when everybody spid that be killed to put her out of her save her from a lingering death, her master quietly laid her head over his shoulder and began to soothe her; and almost immediately the poor, wornout creature dropped asleep, and when she awoke was visibly calmed and refreshed. Thenceforward that man went out daily, and sat there in the stall by her side, and supported her heavy head on his shoulder to let her sleep, and so continued to do until the crisis was past and she began to recover.— Our Dumb Animals.