Excerpt from The Cross or the Pound; Which?: A Talk on the Modernization of Civilization in India With Application to the Hindu and Hinduism; Pen and Ink Sketches by Irving Ward
Strayed or stolen! Whether the one or the other, primarily, mattered not. The horse was gone, and the thing to do was to find him.
The owner searched and had men to search, but in vain. The whereabouts of the missing animal remained a mystery.
Finally there came the half-witted boy, the butt of the jibes and pranks of his more favored playmates, the semi-idiotic creature which so many towns number among their public characters, and, accosting the despairing horseman, said:
"Say, Mister, I've found your horse!"
"Go way," was the impatient rejoinder. "How could a fool like you find him when all the men about the place couldn't?"
"I don't care, I done it all the same."
"How and where, then?"
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