People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — White Feet. [ARTICLE]

White Feet.

From an interesting article under the above heading, in which Hallerton tells in the Winsted (Conn.) Herald how he relieved a stray horse from the great suffering of a cruel checkrein, we take the following: I patted his sides. He said “thank you,” and “God bless you!” and we fell into the following conversation: ‘ ‘But what is the matter with your eyes? how they weep! they look as if cataracts were growing over them; how red they are! and your nose! what is that sore?”

“My eyes? the check-rein draws them right up into the staring sun. They are almost burned out of my head. My nose? that, too, points straight upward and catches every scorching ray.” “And your neck! the beautiful curve that nature has given to a horse is straightened out into a long, stiff, bony muscle! Do you really mean to say that this is the w r ork of the check-rein?” “Yes, it is I can remember ■when I used to look into the brook, and my eyes were dark and lustrous; my neck was an arch. I was a handsome colt, and not the object I am now.” “But what are you 'doing here?” “I am running away. I am going to Boston. I hear that horses don’t have to wear check reins in Boston, so I broke out two nights ago and have been waiting around for somebody to show me the way. Could you show me the way?”