Dobbin Coming Back

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1916, Page 3

Dobbin Coming Back

WALT MASOxN. It looked as though the horse was doomed, the way the motor business boomed, and Dobbin, steed of sterling woith, prepared to tumble off the earth. Town dwellers triudi to givo away the surry and the oue-hoss shay, and every other wheeled machine that wasn't run by gasoline. And any man wMo drove a hoss was looked on as a total Joss; we wouldn't bow to such a dub, or have him at the Country Club : Hi, wife no longer we'd invite, when wo had tea or euchre fight. But we begin to realise that he who drives a horse is wise, for no horse-owner e'er is -cen to fil> his steed with gasoline. A horse eats hay, and liny is cheap: one- bale in luxury will keep a charger for three days or live, no odds how hard :i man may drive. But if you fill your cjart with hay and try to rim the thing that way, it will not wag its tail and ears, or go a foot in forty years. The owner of a car. mlas. must bfow his substance in for gas, an! ;ir ihe sparkling^nice lie pours, the iio-t-o oid price etill higher soars.