A HORSE'S DEVOTION
JA touching story of a horse's devotion to its master comes to a Daily Chronicle Bedfordshire correspondent. Soon after the war broke out a horse,- of which the owner' (a farmer) was very fond, was requisitioned by the military authorities, and was shipped to France. ■ For two years it played its part in the great war, but apparently it never forgot the master at home. Eventually it was sent, back to England, where it was re:offered for civilian purposes. Curiously enough, it was another Bedfordshire farmer who bought it. There some chord in the animal's memory seems to have been touched, and its thoughts turned toward its old master. Anyhow, the original owner was disturbed one night by a noise at the garden gate, accompanied by the stamping of hoofs. Going out, he saw a horse poking its head over the gate. He tried to frighten if away, but the animal would not»biidge, and on going up to it he was amazed to find it was his old horse. All the horrors of war, coupled with two years' separation, had not killed the animal's love for its old master, and at the. first opportunity it had made its way home.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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203A HORSE'S DEVOTION Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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