MARK TWAIN'S HORSE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 156, 31 December 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

MARK TWAIN'S HORSE.

bays Marl? — "l nave a nort>e by the name of Jericho. He was a mare. I have seen remaikable hoißes before, but none so remarkable as this. 1 wanted a horse that would shy, and this fills the bill. I had an idea that shying indicated spirit. If it is correct, I've got the most spirited horse on earth; he shie3 at everything he comes across with the utmost impartiality; he appears to have a mortal dread of telegraph poles especially; and it is fortunate that these are on both aides of the road, because, as it is now, I never fall off twice in succession on the same side. If I fell on the same side always it would get monotonous after a while. The creature has shied at everything to-

day except a haysUck ; he walked up to that with an intrepidity and recklessness that was astounding, aud it would fill anyone with admiration to see how he preserved his self- possession in the presence of a barley stack ; thib d,»re-devil biavpry will be the death of the horse some day ; he is not ptrtiuilarly fast, but he will do all the woik I want. lie has ouly one fault, his tail has been chopped of!', or else he has sat down on it too haul some time or other, and be has to fight the flies with his heels. This is all very well, but when he tries to kick a Hy off the lop of his head with his hind foot it is too much of a variety. He is going to get hi'iiself into trouble that way some day ; he races round and bites my le«s, too ; I do not care particularly about that, but I don't like to see a horse too sociable."