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Show MI FIRE HORSE REFUSESSICK LEAVE "Nigger" Resents Inference That He Needs Tender Care; Long in Service. Do horses think? Do they feel that is. do they e.vpcricnce emotion? The question is 0110 or psycholugiHs to debate. Thcro aro no psychologists in the firo department. It is doublfiil if thero is a fireman who doubts that old "Nigger,'' I lie veteran tiro horse, both thinks clearly am feels keenly. "Nigger" bus long been credited with much borse souse, but his claim io emotional capacity is based on a recent attack of horse "temperament sag." In other words, he gave tho impression of being melancholy. Ho refused his hay and minced at his oats. feoveral days ago tho big black gelding, geld-ing, wboso 1000 pounds of equine energy has helped to pull fire engines ! through Ihc streets of Salt Lake almost al-most daily for tho past Jiftoeu yours, had a sevcro fall. His bruises were so sorious that bo was removed from his regular post of duty and placed in a box stall fo recuperate. 1.1 o resented iljing placed jgn sick leave, and showed every symptom of having had his feol-ings feol-ings hurt. Not until he was replaced in his regular stall v.-ithin sight of his lire-lighting logs did he rest content and consent to cat his full rations. Since then he has been in his regular position, between the two grays that help bim draw the soven-ton aerial truck. "Nigger" is 10 years old, having entered, the norvicc When ho Avas a prancing four-year-old. .Many of the firemen take of! their hals to bis wisdom wis-dom ami experience as a firo fighter. He has watched other horses come mid go, OC late years his valiant heart has been taxed to Ibe bur.sling point with efforts to equal tho speed of tho modern mod-ern motor engines. J3ut he is a good loser. JOach time he runs as honestly as when ho onco led tho charge, and, old as he is, "Nigger'' is an incontrovertible incon-trovertible proof that strenuous living makes for vigorous old age. " Nigger'- is still a beautiful animal, and anyway, a gasoline engine couldn 't feel sorry if it were shunted into the garage for repairs. |