Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-07-29 | Page 4 | "My Kingdom for a Horse!"

MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE A-HORSE There was a horse on the streets of Salt Lake yesterday esterday that we wish every e farmer fai in the state could could see ace He was a Missouri br bred d horse lOrse of dt Black Ji Squirrel and Wild Rose stock a trained saddle I horse He has the sweetest most affectionate face facein facein facein in the world the blackest eyes ees anyone ever looked into He lie has b been bien en treated so kindly that he lie believes all the tho world arc are his friends He lie is trained to half halfa a dozen paces he lopes with all the dignity of an m alderman he lie can do the single foot stunt perfectly perfect perfect- I ly then he has the high stepping shack wherein he lie does l not Ot make mal much speed but he is calculated to tomake make a Fourth of Jul July flag ashamed of itself Monte Cristo declared that The world is mine and this horse ought to be named Monte i Cristo Criso for when he comes up with that high stepping lu half H walk and half trot of of- h his s he says as plainly as Monte Cristo did The world is mine mineY And nd the pity is that th the farmers in this country could justas just just- as well raise such uch colts as he as to raise i-aise 1 14 mustangs mustangs mustangs mus mus- tangs and more if the they would raise such horses as ashe ashe ashe he is they would have more self respect and insensibly insensibly in in- sensibly the children would draw away from the children of the man who believes in mustangs because because because be be- cause if this horse is not a born aristocrat there is nothing in science lie He can be as courteous as any horse but to do it he lie has has has' hasto to bend down In his native maneuvers ers the th big black mighty steed which seemed a patriarch of the breed which B Byron describes in Mazeppa wa was a cayuse as fiS compared with lith this equine wonder which walks up and down own th the streets as though the ground was not good enough for him to walk upon and as if to shame the common scrubs which line the sidewalks side And all those those scrubs scrubs are not four