THE MERCIFUL MAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1611, 16 September 1916, Page 4

THE MERCIFUL MAN.

(BY Wall Mason.)

O, friend, protect your faithful steed, which cannot well explain its need, as human speakers do. U cannot tell a talc of woe, but for all comforts it would know your-horse must look to von. When it is suffering distress, it can’t write letters to the press, like wrathful tinman souls; beneath its burden it must, pant; it has no vote, and so it can’t rebuke yon at the polls. “When wintry tempests howl like sin you wrap yourself from licet to chin in tilings thul keep yon warm; into a cap your head you shove, and on each hand yon put a glove, and you defy the storm. But Dobbin stands lied to a post mil where the blizzard, hlizzes most, witii shaking hones and I hews ;if horses wept tie’ll shed some tears; he lias no ear-muffs on his ears, he lias no overshoes. His silent protest is in vain.unless some officer humane should lake him lo (lie barn; you know your horse* is freezing there, yet bask at ease and do not cure the fraction of a darn. I do nol sec how any gent cun sit around in calm conical upon a stormy day and know his horse is standing, tied, out where tin* wind can pierce its hide, and turn its blood to whev. ,