GLASS EYE’S NEW LIFE

Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 5

GLASS EYE’S NEW LIFE

Glass Eye is a pony who spends most of his life in a beautiful field of Kent. He stands and stands, often forgetting even the grass about him, as if. his heart was heavy with his thoughts. Perhaps he is only just beginning to understand kindness, only now beginning to know that his new little mistress is not going to beat him or ride him untit’he is wearied out, for still he sometimes squeals with fear at anyone’s approach. This is what happened to Glass Eye. . One day a lady riding on horseback saw a caravan filled with twenty gipsy boys, probably hop-pickers, being dragged by a thin, small, bedraggled pony, whose appearance of hopeless despair and wretched condition touched the lady’s heart. so much that she stopped the driver to ask a few questions. The party, she learned, had been carried thirty miles by this poor starved pony. Would the gipsies sell it? Weil, perhaps they would; and there and then a bargain was made, and Glass Eye (so named because his eyes did not match) was takeu to an earthly paradise.

Once more he changed hands, and now the small daughter of one of our English judges showers her loving attentions upon him. Glass Eye’s life has been revolutionised, arid let us hope he is beginning to believe at last that an overloaded caravan and daily beatings while he struggled manfully (or ponyfully) to please his persecutors, are nightmares which will never come again.