| Show death of a forty ym yest oli ola horn horse galve calveston Oal veston ton news ball face is deade an uncertain number of years before the war broke out between the north and south ball face was a sucking colt frisking his tail and punching the maternal udder for all it was worth his life waa was uneventful so be far as the writer knows until he be had bad arrived at the years of dig bad had sown his wild oats and began to understand that life was wag rea real L and that even three year olde olds had hall duties incumbent tupou them about this time he attracted the attention of a do baker a frenchman named peter petal living at opelousas la in con eide ration jofs of a certain quantity of ata ats bran and hay per diem peter induced ball bill face to haul baul his bakers wagon from door t to 0 door delivering honest bread to b honest on it patrons arons just IV how ow many year years peter and ball face got on together in this way we are unable to depose but the war broke out and peter broke out and ball face broke out peter had patriotism and no leae less had ball face peter enlisted and so did ball face in the th 0 second louisana cavalry peter served through the war ao so did lid ball face peter came a safely abely home from the war likewise ball face peter re summed his honest lionet calling so did ball face and kept it up till 1870 when peter and ball face parte parted 4 company avol ball face became the property of G martinelli now a grocer on the corner of twelfth and mechanic ta la in this city then a resident of opelousas la mr sir martinelli blar owned the horse almost twenty yeara years and he wee supposed to be 20 years of age at the time the purchase wa was made a and nil too old for use tide in a bakers wagon this act proves the hor horse s age to have bein almost 40 years and up to ten days ago lie could have been seen ou on the streets almost daily bearing no evidence 0 of f his extreme age he ile was considered as one odthe of the family and treated accordingly he ile was buried yesterday far down the island with many expressions of regret by his owner |
