Liife on a Wisconsin Farm 



shadow of death. She tried to follow us child- 

 ren, so long her friends and workmates and 

 playmates. It was awfully touching. She had 

 several hemorrhages, and in the forenoon of her 

 last day, after she had had one of her dread- 

 ful spells of bleeding and gasping for breath, 

 she came to me trembling, with beseeching, 

 heartbreaking looks, and after I had bathed 

 her head and tried to soothe and pet her, she 

 lay down and gasped and died. All the fam- 

 ily gathered about her, weeping, with aching 

 hearts. Then dust to dust. 



She was the most faithful, intelligent, playful, 

 affectionate, human-like horse I ever knew, and 

 she won all our hearts. Of the many advan- 

 tages of farm life for boys one of the greatest 

 is the gaining a real knowledge of animals as 

 fellow-mortals, learning to respect them and 

 love them, and even to win some of their love. 

 Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and 

 spreads far beyond the teachings of churches 

 and schools, where too often the mean, blind- 

 ing, loveless doctrine is taught that animals 

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