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Show A Dry-Weather Horse. Jacob Hope, the animal expert of Philadelphia, was talking about animal ani-mal fakers. "There was a Manayunk man,'' he said, "who wanted a piebald horse. He visited a dealer up in the Blocks, and the dealer the next day produced a beautiful piebald half cream and half black that the man bought at a stiff price. But the first time he drove hie new purchase in the park a rain came up, and the spots washed off. The horse wasn't a piebald after all. "The man drove straight up to the dealer's again. 'Look at that horse!' he said. 'The rain has taken all the spots off.' " 'Good gracious,' said the dealer, 'bo it has. There was a rubber blanket went with the animal, sir. Did I forget for-get to give you a rubber blanket?'" |