BAY BEAUTY.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)

BAY BEAUTY.

A CLEVER HORSE. Once upon a time Beauty ran races and won prizes at shows for her master. But she grew too old to do that, so she used to draw a dog-cart to take him around the farm, or sometimes he would ride her, which she liked host. She loved to feel him on her hack, and he always had a lump of sugar in his pocket for her when they got back home. She was called Bay Beauty because her coat was red, or bay, as It is called in a liorse.

Bay Beauty lived this happy life for many years, but at last her master was afraid that she would have to be sold, and be must buy a motor-car. “Beauty cannot take mo far, and she is very slow," he said to his wife. “I think I must take her to market and sell her. Farmer Grey would buy her and be kind to her, but she’d not have so much petting.” So he saddled Beauty, and rode away to market. But as ho went along he felt very ill; the sun had been too much for him. He stopped Beauty and got off and sat down on the grass by the road. And he knew that if he did not have a doctor soon he would be very ill indeed. What could he do? He looked at Beauty, and then he thought he would try and send a message home. So he wrote on a bit of paper that he was ill, and would they fetch the doctor, and come and take him home.

Then he tied the paper to Beauty’s mane With a bit of string, and turned her face to home, and told her to go home. He had talked to her so much always that she knew what the word meant. But she did not want to go without hirn, and he was too ill to ride or walk.

Suddenly Beauty seemed to understand, for she made a soft little neigh and then galloped off home quicker than she had gone for ages. Luckily there was someone in the yard when she got home, and soon her master was put lo bed and the doctor sent for.

The doctor said Master would be quite well in a few days, but if Beauty had not been so clever he might have died out In the sun.

So you see no one could ever sell old Buy Beauty after tiiat; she was just allowed to stay at home and do easy hits of work. If a beastie saves your life you must always he good to it, you see.