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1"My master, my dear master was cheering on his comrades with his right arm raised on high, when one of the balls
2whizzing close to my head struck him. I felt him stagger with the shock, though he uttered no cry; I tried to check my
3speed, but the sword dropped from his right hand, the rein fell loose from the left, and sinking backward from the
4saddle he fell to the earth; the other riders swept past us, and by the force of their charge I was driven from the
5spot. "I wanted to keep my place by his side and not leave him under that rush of horses' feet, but it was in vain; and
6now without a master or a friend I was alone on that great slaughter ground; then fear took hold on me, and I trembled
7as I had never trembled before; and I too, as I had seen other horses do, tried to join in the ranks and gallop with
8them; but I was beaten off by the swords of the soldiers. Just then a soldier whose horse had been killed under him
9caught at my bridle and mounted me, and with this new master I was again going forward; but our gallant company was
10cruelly overpowered, and those who remained alive after the fierce fight for the guns came galloping back over the same
11ground. Some of the horses had been so badly wounded that they could scarcely move from the loss of blood; other noble
12creatures were trying on three legs to drag themselves along, and others were struggling to rise on their fore feet,
13when their hind legs had been shattered by shot. After the battle the wounded men were brought in and the dead were
14buried." "And what about the wounded horses?" I said; "were they left to die?" "No, the army farriers went over the
15field with their pistols and shot all that were ruined; some that had only slight wounds were brought back and attended
16to, but the greater part of the noble, willing creatures that went out that morning never came back! In our stables
17there was only about one in four that returned. "I never saw my dear master again. I believe he fell dead from the
18saddle. I never loved any other master so well. I went into many other engagements, but was only once wounded, and then
19not seriously; and when the war was over I came back again to England, as sound and strong as when I went out." I said,
20"I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing." "Ah!" said he, "I should think they never saw it.
21No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade and sham fight. Yes, it is very
22fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed or crippled for life, it has a very different
23look." "Do you know what they fought about?" said I. "No," he said, "that is more than a horse can understand, but the
24enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them." 35
25Jerry Barker I never knew a better man than my new master. He was kind and good, and as strong for the right as John
26Manly; and so good-tempered and merry that very few people could pick a quarrel with him. He was very fond of making
27little songs, and singing them to himself. One he was very fond of was this: "Come, father and mother, And sister and
28brother, Come, all of you, turn to And help one another." And so they did; Harry was as clever at stable-work as a much
29older boy, and always wanted to do what he could. Then Polly and Dolly used to come in the morning to help with the
30cab--to brush and beat the cushions, and rub the glass, while Jerry was giving us a cleaning in the yard, and Harry was
31rubbing the harness. There used to be a great deal of laughing and fun between them, and it put Captain and me in much
32better spirits than if we had heard scolding and hard words. They were always early in the morning, for Jerry would say:
33"If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And
34flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye." He could not bear any careless loitering and waste of
35time; and nothing was so near making him angry as to find people, who were always late, wanting a cab horse to be driven
36hard, to make up for their idleness. One day two wild-looking young men came out of a tavern close by the stand, and
37called Jerry. "Here, cabby! look sharp, we are rather late; put on the steam, will you, and take us to the Victoria in
38time for the one o'clock train? You shall have a shilling extra." "I will take you at the regular pace, gentlemen;
39shillings don't pay for putting on the steam like that." Larry's cab was standing next to ours; he flung open the door,
40and said, "I'm your man, gentlemen! take my cab, my horse will get you there all right;" and as he shut them in, with a
41wink toward Jerry, said, "It's against his conscience to go beyond a jog-trot." Then slashing his jaded horse, he set
42off as hard as he could. Jerry patted me on the neck: "No, Jack, a shilling would not pay for that sort of thing, would
43it, old boy?" Although Jerry was determinedly set against hard driving, to please careless people, he always went a good
44fair pace, and was not against putting on the steam, as he said, if only he knew why. I well remember one morning, as we
45were on the stand waiting for a fare, that a young man, carrying a heavy portmanteau, trod on a piece of orange peel
46which lay on the pavement, and fell down with great force. Jerry was the first to run and lift him up. He seemed much
47stunned, and as they led him into a shop he walked as if he were in great pain. Jerry of course came back to the stand,
48but in about ten minutes one of the shopmen called him, so we drew up to the pavement. "Can you take me to the
49South-Eastern Railway?" said the young man; "this unlucky fall has made me late, I fear; but it is of great importance
50that I should not lose the twelve o'clock train. I should be most thankful if you could get me there in time, and will
51gladly pay you an extra fare." "I'll do my very best," said Jerry heartily, "if you think you are well enough, sir," for
52he looked dreadfully white and ill. "I must go," he said earnestly, "please to open the door, and let us lose no time."
53The next minute Jerry was on the box; with a cheery chirrup to me, and a twitch of the rein that I well understood. "Now
54then, Jack, my boy," said he, "spin along, we'll show them how we can get over the ground, if we only know why."
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