p. 11 | A LONG SERVICE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 7, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 43.

A LONG SERVICE.

"Pompey," Owned by Dr. H. B. Cross.

THE subject of this sketch is only a horse, but he has long been well known to many people in this vicinity as among the best and most intelligent of his kind.

He has now reached beyond the very unusual age of thirty-three years—has had very little sickness, and has been in the harness almost daily for the last twenty-six years, which period he has been owned and driven by his present owner, and now he appears to be able and willing to do service for an indefinite period. He came of the old Hamiltonian stock.

Besides his service as doctor's horse, he has frequently been driven long distances in the country on summer vacations, and seems never to forget places where he had been before, however long the intervals.

On homeward journeys he has been known to choose a nearer way than the one he had been over, altho the road has been traversed by him before.

When left to himself in the city it has seemed remarkable to note the ease and certainty with which he would go to streets and houses where he had been but once before and when it was not easy for the driver to find the way and place except by number on the doors.

In case of accident he has always been tractable and seemed to understand that he must be quiet and unexcited even when the harness broke and let the carriage onto him going down hill, or if a trace got loose or a strap broke he would understand it and stop or indicate in some way that something was wrong.

This horse is still living and still useful in the doctor's service.—Our Dumb Animals.