Show boys prayer a gem ex governor stone of pennsylvania who has just passed away was a great lover of horses ills his pet as a youth was a colt named midnight when midnight still a colt died as the result of a tumble the boy was inconsolable he efe tells in his autobiography the tale of a plain man alan about fill the e funeral he conducted 11 in solitude over the body of his four footed friend 1 I had no book but I 1 knelt down over his body and tried to say a prayer 1 I prayed oh lord if there Is a horse heaven let midnight go to it I 1 hope there Is as I 1 want to see midnight again make we as good boy as midnight was a colt 1 I 1 had no audience but a and a wood thrush were singing and I 1 heard hear a squi squirmed barking a bass chorus |