Mrs. Ames Said That Yesterday She Started Out With Him, Intending To Come To The Post To Let Me See Him - Fancy The Delicate Feeling Expressed In That - But The Horse Went So Fast She Became Frightened, For It Seemed As Though The Telegraph Poles Were Only A Foot Apart.

She finally got the horse turned around and drove back home, when her husband got in and undertook to drive him, but with no better success; but he, too, started the horse toward his old home.

Mr. Ames then told her to have Rollo put back in the stable until she could get me to show her how to drive him. I almost cried out from pure pity for the poor dumb beast that I knew was suffering so in his longing for his old home and friends who understood him. But for the horse's sake I tried not to break down. I told her that first of all she must teach the horse to love her. That was an awfully hard thing to say, I assure you, and I doubt if the woman understood my meaning after all. When I told her not to pull on his mouth she looked amazed, and said, "Why, he would run away with me if I didn't!" But I assured her that he would not - that he had been taught differently - that he was very nervous and spirited - that the harder she pulled the more excited he would become - that I had simply held him steady, no more.

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