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Show JAP GARDENER ENDS HIS LIFE AS HORSE DIES KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jane 17 (U P) For seventeen years Misnji Kawhnrn, Japanese truck pnrdener. had no one on earth to love him but his browu mure. "She does everything but tnlk to me. She understands everything I say. She and Masaji will never be lonely as long as we live,'' he often remarked to hi.s neighbor. The mare was his constant companion. com-panion. When she was not hauling K a wham and his wares back and forth from market she was pastured near him as he worked in the garden. gar-den. He would talk to her and she would whinny back to hira. Today neighbors arose to see a I .strange sight in Kawhara's back yard. Beneath an apple tree, where she was usually tethered, lay the mare," choked to death from her rope following fright from a storm. Hanging to a limb of the same tree was the body of Kawhara. who had followed his beloved animal in death. |