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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], A little witch. (search)
A little witch. [From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.] How much we lose by not making the acquaintance of our cousins, the brutes! I say we, courteously, for I am not included in the class of persons who are contumacious to dogs, horses, and other quadrupedal inhabitants of our planet. The fact is, I am more interested in a beaver than a beau; and a chained bear, who travels all his waking hours in a circle, and always turns a somersault at a particular point, is much more interesting to me than a fashionable young fellow doing very much the same thing. I was always very odd, and I cannot tell whether I first liked William Cumming for his horse Selim, or for himself. Selim was a wonderful fellow, and had cost a fabulous price, though he had a bad name. No one had ever ridden him but William Cumming, and yet the first five minutes of our acquaintance made us friends. Selim arched his proud neck to kiss me; and I patted his glossy coat, and smoothed his mane, and put my sidesa