A DRUNKARD HORSE by T.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 47.

A DRUNKARD HORSE.

By T.

An expressman in New York has a three-year-old colt that he has taught to drink beer and whisky and to chew tobacco. The animal is also very fond of mustard and other hot condiments. And, contrary to his horse nature, he eats meat with a relish, seeming to enjoy it quite as much if not more than his normal diet of hay, grass, and grain.

This horse frequently goes the round of the saloons with his owner, and many persons treat him in order to see him drink. In one evening not long since he drank one hundred and twenty glasses of beer. Of course it made the poor creature dead drunk.

This animal seems to feel all of the miseries in getting over one of his drunks that is experienced by the man who drinks. And he seems to appreciate the various things that are resorted to for "sobering up" quite as much as his inhuman master, who has taught him in these evil ways.

It may furnish amusement to coarse, rough men to thus educate a brute to debase himself, but what a shame it is that the vices and debaucheries of men should be trained into the dumb animals! T.