to buy necessaries for his family, and finally Mr. Fry, 

 out of sympathy but under protest, took the colt and 

 paid the S50. After a thorough cleaning and cleans- 

 ing the colt was given plenty to eat and improved 

 very rapidly. The next year Mr. Fry leased a por- 

 tion of his farm to a colored man to work on shares, 

 who had no horse, and in the spring that Little Brown 

 Jug was two years old he was sold by Mr. Fry to this 

 colored man for $75. The colored man broke him to 

 harness and used him to plow the land and put in his 

 crops ; and in addition to this work every Sunday his 

 wife and two or three children would get upon the 

 back of the colt and ride several miles to church ; and, 

 in addition to all this, the colored man's son had a 

 sweetheart who lived two or three miles from his 

 home, and he would take this colt, after having worked 

 him all day, and go across the fields to the home of 

 his sweetheart, hitch him outdoors, where he would 

 stand with nothing to eat, and often in the storms, 

 until the early hours of the morning. This per- 

 formance was repeated several times a week during 

 the entire season. When fall came the colt was in a 

 pitiable condition, and showed his hard usage very 

 plainly. That fall the wife of the colored man was 

 taken sick, and, after attending her for some time, the 

 doctor refused to come any more unless Mr. Fry 

 would become responsible for his bill, which he finally 

 consented to do, and the doctor attended her until she 

 died. The doctor's bill was $60, and seeing there was 

 no other way out of the difBculty the colored man 

 gave the colt to Mr. Fry and he paid the doctor the 

 $60. At that time the colt could not be sold for $60, 

 and Mr. Fry only allowed that amount for him be- 

 cause there was nothing else for him to do. The colt 



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