56 THE STRIKE AT SHANE'S. 



to treat them as though they did. This is especially 

 the case with horses and dogs. I find that I can get 

 much better service out of them by treating them 

 kindly ; and then I feel better myself when I have 

 treated all the brute creation fairly, and have dealt 

 justly by them." 



"I wish papa would look at things as you do, and 

 would take more interest in the welfare of his dumb 

 animals," said Edith. 



' ' I should think a good little teacher like you could 

 teach him something about such things," said Tracy. 



"He won't listen to me," said Edith. "He says I 

 am too young to know much about such things." 



"Why, how is this?" exclaimed Tracy, as they 

 passed along the road in the vicinity of the wreck, and 

 saw Dick over in the field. "Here is a horse running 

 loose with a bridle on and part of the harness. Why, 

 it looks like" — he paused in his remark, for he recog- 

 nized the horse as Mr. Shane's. 



"It looks like Dick," said Edith, taking up the sen- 

 tence and finishing it for him ; "but it can't be, for 

 Dick is lame and this horse is not." 



" It looks like some one has been in trouble, but I 

 don't see any indications of it on the road. That is 

 one way that high-spirited horses have of retaliating 

 for ill-usage on the part of their masters," he con- 

 tinued, as they drove along the road. On nearing the 

 turn of the road he saw evidences of the wreck made 

 by Dick ; but Edith's bright eyes had seen it before he 

 did. 



