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Show How Jim Got His Pony. Of course, we all know that kindness is never lost. It generally makes somebody or something : happy, and always makes the doer better, nobler and strongvr; but sometimes it makes him richer, too, and that is what I want to tell -you about. Jim's Uncle Joe is a teamster, who hauls lumber lum-ber from a mountain mill in California down to a city on the great, dry, hot plains. A few months ago one of his horses, a splendid little black fellow named Prince, began to act very strangely. On the hot mountain roads he often became dizzy, stumbled over rocks and in holes, as if he were really blind, and after a while began to reel to and fro like a drunken man. He got worse and worse as August came, and the man tried to sell or trade him off, but no one wanted him. ''Say, Uncle," exclaimed Jim, who was riding on tlx) wagon one day, "I think it's too hot for Prince out here. You ought to get him one of those hats they make for horses." i "Now, see here, Jim," his uncle said, ''I am doing do-ing this business, and I tell you Prince'll go for ten dollars to the first man who'll take him. I ain't in for babying horses, never have been, and never will. This hat business is all nonsense. Horses don't naturally wear 'era; and, what's more, they don't need 'um. Prince is no good, that's all." "Will you sell him to me for ten dollars?" asked Jim. "Why, yes," replied the man; "but what you want with him I can't see. I tell you he ain't-no good." The boy had been working and saving his money, so he was able to pay for the horse at once. "He'll do for ordinary riding, if he isn't much good j. for work," he thought, "and really I hate to see j uncle treat -him so." j About the first thing Jim did after that was to i get a hat fitted at the harnessmaker's. A funny- i looking hat it was, with holes for ears, and a rib- ( bon to tie under the neck; but it did Prince lots of j good.' His eyes soon became well. He picked up J fast, ami inside of three months was a regular |