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The first thing- I remember was one Sunday mornnig' in May, 1898, 

 when my master and Ernest, his stable man, came to the stall where my 

 mother and I were. I was only about one hour old, but I was walking 

 around the stall. They looked at me for a while, and then my master 

 came into the stall and put his hand on me and spoke kindly. I was 

 afraid at first and ran behind my mother, but he followed me, saying, 

 "Poor little thing, do not be afraid, I will not hurt you;" so after a little time 

 my fear left me, and I have never been afraid of him since, as he has al- 

 ways been kind to me, and provided me with a nice clean box stall with 

 plenty of straw to lie on and good food to eat, and he never works me 

 too hard. That morning, after looking me carefully over he said, " Well 

 my little beauty, I am glad that you are a filly ; you are tall enough but 

 rather too slim, but time and good care will cause you to grow stouter ; 

 your knees are rather weak but they will grow strong after a while ; I 

 will call you Tomboy; and if you make as good a mare as your old mother 

 you will do well." He then gave my mother a nice feed of warm bran and 

 crushed oats and a drink ot water. He told Ernest to clean the stall out 

 and put in a liberal supply of clean straw. I liked to lie on the straw, 

 and did so most of the time for a few days Whenever I got hungry I 

 got up and took some milk and walked around a little. My mother did 

 not lie down for three days after I was born ; she appeared to be afraid to 

 do so for fear of hurting me. My master and mistress came to see me 

 often, and would always pet and handle me. I liked to see either of 

 them come, and would always walk up to them to be petted. Ernest gave 

 my mother her food and water, and kept the stall clean and well supplied 

 with straw. He likes horses and was very kind to us, and we both liked 

 him, and would do what he told us. When I was three days old, my 

 master put a little halter on me and Ernest put one on my mother and 

 led her out of the stall. I was not afraid, but did not know what to do. My 

 master, however, was kind and did not get angry and jerk or hit me, but 

 petted and coaxed me ; he did not expect me to lead the same as a horse 

 that had been trained to it; so I soon learned what he wanted me to do and 

 went along with him. They took us to the yard between the stable and 

 the house. I forgot to tell you that we live in town. There was some 

 nice grass in the yard ; and as soon as our halters were taken ofi^ and we 

 were given our liberty, mj- mother commenced to eat it. The day was 

 fine and warm, and it was nice to be out in the open air. I began to run 

 around my mother and kick up my heels. 



My master and Ernest stood and watched us and laughed at the tun 

 1 was having. Master said, "That is right, Tomboy, have a good time but 

 do not hurt vourself, you are not very strong yet, and a little sun will do 

 you good." When I became tired I lay down and stretched myself out in 

 the sun. All this time my mother continued to eat grass, but would often 

 look to see that I was all right ; she was very proud of me. After a 

 little while some bad boys came along and threw stones at me, one 

 of them hit me on the head and hurt me. I jumped up and ran to my 

 mother; the boys continued to throw stones and mother became greatly 

 excited ; she galloped around and whinnied, and my master heard the 

 noise and ran out He was very angry at the boys, and told them that 



