A MOTHER’S GRATITUDE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145941, 26 September 1917, Page 4

A MOTHER’S GRATITUDE.

Some time ago Air. Ncidlmgor was walking when be heard almost human cries of distress, and approached tho place from which they came. He was sure they were not human cries, but lie had never heard anything like them; they were agonising cries, and, somewhat nervously, lie endeavoured to find the cause. At the corner of the' barn lie found a young colt .wedged between a siding ant! a post which supported the ends of a barbed-wire fence, a fence that no humane man would use. The barbs were hurting tile colt cruelly, but tiio colt did not make the cries. Standing by him was a beautiful brood mare, ins mother, with extended neck, starting eves, and quivering body, and crying for the help she could not give. Air. Neidlnlgcr hastily removed the staples, and set the colt free, the pi other rushed to it, licking it; fondled it. putting her chin over it, in the tentlerest consoling manner, and Air. Ncidliuger left them, well pleased to have relieved their sufferings. Presently he heard the hoofs of a horse after him, and tho mare came up to him, following him right up to the house, and showing in every possible way, her gratitude for bis help to her young oho.