The Black Swans 



the children of each household. Is 

 it any wonder, these big honest black 

 and gray horses of heavy draft that 

 you see in daily use upon our city 

 streets and cornbelt farms, are as 

 gentle as so many well-trained dogs, 

 that almost any child can handle 

 them? We are in France's debt for 

 many things, and not the least of these 

 is the great horse that is such a factor 

 in the moving of the nation's plows 

 and heavy trucks. You would not of 

 course expect to see the Percherons 

 numerous in a Bremen township. You 

 will see geese though and horses of 

 which you could not be very proud, 

 and sometimes women, too, that are 

 old before their time and overworked. 

 But it is time we were on the homeward 

 trail. 



I have been resting as I have thus 

 been soliloquizing beneath a venerable 

 cottonwood that stands at the end of 

 a row evidently planted by an early 

 settler in these parts. These are of 

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