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Show JUST MATTER OF DEDUCTION As the Boy Explained It, the Finding of Horse Was Really Quite Simple Matter. Speaking of the development of the story-telling talent in youth, Richard Bennett, the actor, is fond of relating this incident: Some years ago a prominent citizen of a town lost a horse.. It was not much of a horse. In fact, it was blind in one eye and spavined. But, perhaps per-haps as a relic, Bennett says, the prominent citizen wanted the horse. So he advertised, offering $5 reward for its return. The town half-wit, a boy of nineteen, with a harelip, came one afternoon leading the horse, with a strap about tile size of a shoestring, to the prominent citizen's door. The. horse's owner was pleased. "Now," said be kindly, scenting a good narrative and perhaps an adventure, ad-venture, "now, my boy, here's your $5; and I'll give you another $5 if you'll tell me just hint- you found my horse." "Well, all right," said the boy. "I jus' thought if I was that old horse where I would go, and I did and he was." He got the extra five; Kansas City Star. |