FARMER AND HORSE
Farmer and Horse BEFORE the Horse is awake the Farmer gets up, and he retires only after the Horse is bedded. The Farmer gives the Horse a daily massage; the Horse doesn't massage the Farmer. The...
...Still, in one way the Farmer has it on the Horse...
...Horatio Winsi.ow in Puck...
...On the contrary, if the Horse voted, probably his Horse-sense would insist on a radical change—a change which would doubtless disturb many of the great and good men whom God has made stage-managers of our present civilization...
...If the Farmer didn't drink when he was hot and tired he wouldn't drink at all...
...If a Farmer dies, two twenty-five cent ads...
...the Farmer can't afford such luxurious habits...
...If a Horse dies you have to pay about a hundred dollars to get another...
...The Horse eats leisurely, and eats only the food that suits him best...
...As the Farmer grows old the mortgage grows heavier...
...When a Horse gets old his load is lightened...
...If you work a Horse to death somebody's liable to have the law on you, but when it comes to working Farmers to death— well, there's no closed session for Farmers...
...will bring you a couple of dozen men looking for a job...
...When the Farmer votes he has sense enough to vote to keep things as they are...
...The Horse doesn't drink when he is hot and tired...
Vol. 2 • November 1910 • No. 47