Minkie

LOUIS TRACY
Author of “ The Wings of the Morning ,” “ The Pillar of Light ,” “ The Captain of the Kansas ,” etc.
Toronto
McLeod & Allen
Publishers
1907
Copyright, 1907 By EDWARD J. CLODE.
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
HOW A BOGEY-MAN CAME TO DALE END
Told by Bobby, the Horse
MINKIE says I ought to begin this story, because I am the biggest and strongest. I don’t see that at all, but she thinks I can’t see much, anyhow, owing to my silly habit of wearing blinkers, which is just her irritating way of settling an argument—as if I made the harness. And she knows better, too. I have an eye stuck on each side of my head to enable me to look nearly all round the circle; but that clever individual, man, tries to improve on Providence by making me don the rogue’s badge. Well, it would make any horse laugh. You watch how the clever individual came to grief when Minkie and her gang tackled him. Yes, that is what they call us—her “gang”—although Dandy, the fox-terrier, won’t admit that Tibbie belongs to our crowd, and he gets furious if one even mentions the Parrot. Perhaps he is prejudiced against Tibbie—I have noticed that most dogs seldom have a good word for a cat—but I do agree with him about that green idiot, Polly. Of all the back-biting, screeching—Eh, what? Oh, don’t worry, as I tell Dan when he trots in to my place to look for a rat—you’ll be in the middle of a real up-to-date yarn in two buzzes of a gad-fly....