THE horse's rescue. 1S6 



In the morning Mr Wright said tlie horse was as 

 well as ever it was. Five years afterward I saw this 

 v^ame liorse and the lady that owned it driving it forty 

 miles from Horseheads, where I was at w^ork. I talked 

 with her about her horse. She said he had been all 

 right ever since I got him out of his trouble, and yet 

 if I tell any one what I can do, and do it, they do not 

 all see me do it, and there is always plenty to fight 

 and bleat, calling you a brag. It is almost as dan- 

 gerous to find out anything new as it was two thou- 

 sand years ago. 



We will go on with this liorse fight in this town. 

 They begin to worry sortie about my spending my 

 money, and yet not a man has paid me a cent for cur- 

 ing his horses. I shall have to stop spending my 

 money soon, curing their horses for nothing, or some 

 of them will hang themselves. Then I shall be blamed 

 for that. They do worry so there is danger. We will 

 try it a little longer, and run the risk. 



Here comes Jack Bennett with the American Star 

 stallion. Jack is a wide-awake follow ; got lots of 

 cnsh and horses. He iikes horses, and has lots of time 

 to play with them. His star horse is a natural trotter, 

 and is the nearest natural of any horse I have seen in 

 or around this town yet, or was before he was slaugh- 

 tered in his feet. Jack sent his horse to school at 

 Corning to teach him to trot. He went to Corning to 

 to see how Star was learning. Hfe soon saw that some- 

 thing was wrong. He could not trot as well as he 

 could when he left home ; and that was not all. Tiiere 

 was danger of his being spoilt. Star had white legs 

 nearly to his gambrels; the blood was running down 



