Chapter XX

About the tragedy? Well, it was a sad affair, and seemed to me, at the time of its occurrence, the saddest thing that could happen; but I have learned since that sorrow untainted by sin is not the worst thing that comes into life, and that--as Master sometimes quotes:

"The love that's safe beneath the sod,
Or better still, in the bosom of God,
Is the perfect love complete."

You see, Master and my sweet young mistress, bonny, brown-eyed Annie Dee, were to be married on the morrow, and a few of the wedding guests were staying at the hospitable old Dee homestead. Railroads were not as plenty then as now, and he was to take her to his home behind the bays--you remember them?

I was going, too, because I belonged to Annie; we had never been separated more than one whole day in my short life, and she loved me dearly.

It is needless to add that I loved her as only an affectionate, dumb creature can love an indulgent owner.

"You are losing your roses, Annie, with the worry and excitement," her bosom friend, Ray Lyle, said; "let us have an hour in the air."

"Yes, a horseback ride," agreed my mistress.

"Only I am such a coward," said her friend.

"Never mind, you shall ride Dandy. I can manage Jackson."

And presently Master on Julie, another young man on Queen, my mistress on Jackson, a high-spirited creature, and Ray Lyle on my back, were flying over the smooth country roads. I don't know how it happened, no one seemed to, but Jackson suddenly became frightened, reared, and the next moment had flung his fair, sweet rider to the ground. Her head struck sharply against a small bowlder by the roadside.

Springing from his horse, Dr. Dick was kneeling beside her in a moment, but she lay limp and unconscious. They carried her home. After a time she opened her pretty eyes and whispered to Master:

"Keep Dandy for my sake."

After awhile she roused again, and smiling up into his stricken face she said:

"Meet me--I'll--be--waiting----"

She was gone ere the sentence was finished.

So you see Master's wedding is long deferred, but I know what he means when he says:

"She is waiting and I am coming."

Yes, she laid down the burden of life early, and by and by we will do the same--Master and I.

THE END.

AN OLD HORSE'S APPEAL.

I'm a poor old gray horse whom somebody owns,
That I'm sadly neglected you will see by my bones;
I wish some one would buy me--I wish I were sold
To a man with a heart, for I'm feeble and old.

Every fifth day of the week I come to the mart,
And stand tethered and tied to my dirty old cart,
While my master in ease at the public-house table,
Denies me shelter, and food, and stable.

I'm possessed of some virtues which in him you'll not find,
I am docile and patient, I am gentle and kind;
My acts are instinctive; his the proof of a mind;
But if I've no reason, his is certainly blind.

I know 'tis his haste to accumulate pelf,
I know 'tis the thought of his miserable self.
I know 'tis his love and grasp after greed
That makes him forget he's a Christian in creed.

I am tied with no shelter for hours together,
No matter the wind, no matter the weather;
You may judge how I suffer, think of my pain,
For I am cold, I am sodden, I'm dripping with rain.

Sometimes in the snow, sometimes in the sleet;
You may see me uncared for, exposed in the street
Without water to drink, without morsel to eat.

I stand close to the hall where the magistrates meet,
I am equally close to the justices' seat;
But because I've no wound on my body or head
I may stand till I'm stunned, I may stand till I'm dead.

O friends of humanity! friends of the brute!
Bestow on me pity. Though by nature I'm mute,
I'm a creature of God--deny it who can--
And have feelings as keen and as strong as a man.

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Banking 65
Bookkeeping 76
Business Points for Young Business Men 213
Character in Hands 140
Civil Service Examinations 177
Commercial Arithmetic 37
Common Blunders Corrected 11
Compendium of Facts and Figures 228
Correct Thing in Dress and Manners 215
Correspondence 95
Curiosities 85
Easy Lessons in Astronomy 24
Every-day Geography 17
Famous Autographs 124, 191
Famous Rulers 144
Figure Shorthand 163
Games, Puzzles, Conundrums, Kinks and Wrinkles 166
Good Openings in New Trades 155
Good Readings and Recitations 229
Handy Bible Notes 217
Handy Helps for Bookkeepers 183
Handy Helps for Corresponding Clerks 184
Hints on Public Speaking 15
How to Apply for a Situation 115
How to Buy and Sell Stocks 122
How to Conduct a Home Reading Club 51
How to do Business 99
How to Educate Yourself 7
How to Form a Stock Company 106
How to get a Start 187
How to get out a Patent 207
How to Mark the Price of Goods 190
How to Read Character from Chins and Noses 145
How to Write for the Press 120
How we are Governed 47
Interesting Geographical Comparisons 72
Law Lessons for the People 147
Languages 142
Lessons in Electricity 157
Lessons in French Conversation 209
Lessons in German Conversation 211
Lessons in Spelling 33
Literature, Authors, and Books 107
"Mayflower" Passenger List 118
Mechanic's Arithmetic 101
Mechanical Drawing 192
Opinions of Successful Men 9
Penmanship 199
Physical Culture 152
Practical Lessons in Drawing 172
Proof Reading 154
Reporting 93
Rules of Order for Business Meetings 161
Science Lessons 204
Secret Cipher 117
Shorthand Multiplication 87
Short Cuts in Figures 53
Success on the Road 49
Telegraphy 201
These Bodies of Ours 134
United States History, Leading Facts 126

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96 42 63
38 29 29
---- ---- ----
3648 1218 1827
---- ---- ----

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62 × 97 88 × 55 62 × 68
77 × 37 68 × 29 32 × 94
86 × 47 64 × 38 43 × 84
63 × 48 23 × 27 88 × 73
46 × 27 63 × 48 99 × 82
82 × 49 48 × 34 85 × 85
96 × 38 48 × 26 23 × 44

49
17-3/4
-------
869-3/4

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Transcriber's Notes:

Added table of contents.

Normalized fractions to the form x-y/z.

Underscores are used to represent _italics_ and equals signs are used to represent =bold=.

Some inconsistent hyphenation retained (e.g. fore-leg vs. forelegs, ofttimes vs. oft-times).

Page 2, changed "wilful" to "willful" for consistency.

Page 5, added missing open quote at start of page.

Page 7, changed ? to ! after "sell me."

Page 8, changed "midnigh" to "midnight" and "whinney" to "whinny."

Page 12, changed "as as a child" to "as a child."

Page 13, changed "did'nt" to "didn't."

Page 16, added missing open quote at start of page.

Page 17, changed "pretence" to "pretense" for consistency.

Page 55, changed "Another thing made" to "Another thing that made."

Page 56, changed "same ones run" to "same ones ran."

Page 60, changed double quotes to single quotes around "strychnia."

Page 66, changed double quotes to single quotes around "round-up."

Page 85, changed "Master plead" to "Master pled."

Page 96, changed comma to period and added missing paragraph break after "water at least."

Page 98, removed unnecessary close quote after "balky horse alive."

Page 101, added missing quote before "I'll see how such work..."

Page 103, changed "comes" to "come."

Advertising, changed "there figures" to "three figures."