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Show The Case Of Pan And Puss PAN and Puss made up a trotting team which a gentleman who owned them was very proud of. He never got tired of explaining that Puss was the gentlest of all creatures, the most cheerful, the most willing of all horseflesh and about the fleetest; while Pan he described as, while resembling his great prototype in loving lov-ing to dance and in hearing his hoofs ring on the pavement, while he loved to show off on festal days, he was still the most tractable of all horses, and one of the most reliable. His affection for Puss was very marked. She could push him away from his own oats and he would not say a word. They were gaited just alike and went together to-gether like double oscilating engines. But last Easter, as the Sunday approached, the owner went down town and bought it was a whim of his a beautiful dorby for Pan and a lady's Easter hat for Puss. And so, when he hitched them up on Sunday morning, he tied tho derby on Pan. He pawed the ground in admiration admira-tion of himself and gratitude to his owner. He fastened the lady's hat to the head stall of Puss, making holes through the hat for her ears, and no lady that attended church on Easter was prouder of her top adornment than was Puss. When the owner was ready, he got into the buggy and started out for his spin. Puss Is a few pounds heavier than Pan, and not quite so high of head, and so she is worked on the off side. They had gone but a little way until the rim of Puss' hat struck Pan right under tho ear. He was surprised, but thought it was an accident, ac-cident, When out on the drive the driver tightened the reins and chirruped, and they started on a 2:27 gait. Puss always had a way of shaking her head when she was at full speed, and with every shake she would hit Pan with tho rim of the hat. He bore it a good while In silence, a& thought It was one' of Puss ways of making a joke. But at last It became Irksome to him, and he remonstrated by lopping his ears. But that did not do any good. The tapping of the rim of the 1 hat came with the regular precision of her step, i until finally Pan, for the first time in his life, grew angry and made a savage lunge at Puss. This continued througl the drive and the owner admitted to his wife that he never had j seen those horses act that way before. When ' they reached home and the harnesses were removed, re-moved, Pan was still angry, and he let go both hind feet into the ribs of Puss, something he had I never been guilty of before in the world, and Puss struck Pan a vicious blow with her off fore foot and took a piece out of his shoulder with her teeth. That night Pan tried to rub the man who I takes care of the team against the stall, and Puss when fed her oats, with her nose scattered them all over the stall, and had a look as though she was wondering what a divorce would cost. The moral of all this story is that if in these days men hesitate to go walking on narrow sidewalks side-walks with their wives, or if they are cross at dinner after the wife has been out in the afternoon, after-noon, perhaps It does not come from inherent meanness, but from an aggravation of circumstances circum-stances over which the poor devil has no control. |