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Show aaaasaaaaSaaaBBBaBBBBBBBBaBaaHaBBsaBBBBBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaMsaaa Doing- as Ha Pleased. Miss Josephine Peabody, the poet, lives In Boston, and she is noted there for her affection for dumb animals. "Whenever I see a man abusing a horse," Miss Peabody said the other day. "I am reminded of an old Englishman I used to know, and I wish that I could bring this Englishman's pluck and ready wit to bear upon the cruel fellow. "Walking on Boylston street one day the old Englishman saw a carter beating a lean horse unmercifully. " 'Be ashamed of yourself,' the old man cried, "be ashamed of yourself to abuse a poor dumb brute like that' " 'Why,' said the carter, the horse is mine. Mayn't I do as I please with my own? "And, seized with a' fresh access of rare, he laid on again harder than ever. "The Englishman was carrying a stout oaken stick. He advanced on the carter firmly, and beat him over the head and shoulders till he howled for mercy. " 'What right have you.' the carter asked, bitterly, to strike me with that stick r "'It's my own,' said the Englishman; 'mayn't I do as I please with my own?'." Denver Republican. ODDS AND ENDS. -a. |