Show JUST LIKE A GIRL An Excursion and a Horse Who Answered to the Name of Jim Two girls once went on a driving trip with a very pleasant livery horse named Jim The third day out they stopped for lunch and to rest the horse at an inn the stable of which was crowded with the horses of country people who had driven In to a fair that was going on In the village These various va-rious animals a somewhat Intoxicated stable boy managed to mix up and when asked to harness Jim again he had to admit that he was uncertain UH to which horse belonged to the young ladles Why of course they cried wed know Jim anywhere a brown horse with a white nose Taken to the stable they found themselves confronted confront-ed with innumerable brown horses all of whose noses were white Horses look terribly alike with their harness off confessed the girls but brightening bright-ening our horse knows his name Jim JImJ At the sound one of the brown beasts stretched out his neck and neighed intelligently Thats he cried the girls good old Jim knows us even If we dont know him Besides now we look at him closely we recognize recog-nize his expression Well said the proprietor If youre sure Its your horse The girls drove off and finished their tour successfully though once or twice Jim gave evidence of mannerisms that they had not remarked before And how did Jim suit you asked the livery liv-ery stable keeper from whom they hired their rig when they finally drove back Into bin yard Nice horse Jim best I have In the stable But In the name of mercy In a voice of consternation conster-nation whats that you have between the shafts Why isnt that Jim faltered the girlsJim Jim cried the livery keeper furiously furi-ously that brokendown beast Jim Not by a Jugful It Innt And so it proved to the dcrtliuent of the girls purses for Jim was never recovered re-covered BverybodyH Mni > iine |