Remembered Him

Otago Witness, Issue 2287, 30 December 1897, Page 53

Remembered Him

My father (wiites a cotiespondent), whb Bervsd through th* Crimean AVar aud the Indian Mutiny, had cccasiou tr> ba in E3i:.burgli some years ago ; and, in commuy witL: an old friend — a cavalryman, — wats cros-iinr the North Bridge.

OE a sudden a cab bo- -s rubbed hii nose against the cavalrjman's' 1 «\pl,-, causing him to start and turn round. He 1 ._>ked at tha animal for a second or two, aud. theu cxc ) iinied : "Jimmie! Jimmie 1 A".v h»ve *ou cjoie to this?"

Jimmie answered him with a ntigb, ar.d as the thoroughfare was a busy 0:1?, the cavalryman and my father gob iuto ihe cab, and the cabman was asked to d.he to a quiet street.

Arrived there, a fee^ the best corn was procured, and as the horse ate frcm t; j benefactor's hand, my father leaiaed tha Jimmie was the horse the cavi!ry>n*.u rede whsu in the army.

"Be good and kind to him,'' he eaid as he BtroVed his old friendV sl-pg-.'y xua; c. leurs all the time coursing do»vn his chci '■.:, "and you : Jl never regret ifc. v As he left he kissed the frier d of l.ia %htiug days, slipped half a crovn into cabb,- '•> hand, and Jimmie and he i^arted cocpojuy, perhaps for ever. $*-„