Unusual Case of Animal Instinct Displayed by Animal of J. J. Rouse.
Pined For its Old Home.
After Long Absence the Horse Finally Appears at Master’s Gate for Admittance.
    About five months ago J. J. Rouse, who owns a large farm just west of here, sold a fine black horse to a farm laborer on his place just as the man was leaving for Chicago to work. Wednesday morning of last week he was told that a stray horse has been taken in by the farm hand about 7 o’clock that morning, and on going in the barn he saw this same horse tied to the manger.
    Mr. Rouse had no more than stepped into the barn before the horse noticed his former owner and commenced to show appreciation of seeing him again, and when Mr. Rouse walked into the stall where the horse was tied the animal was so pleased with the strokes and pattings that it fairly “talked.”
    Two months ago Mr. Rouse received a telephone call from the man in Chicago who bought the horse, telling him to be on the lookout for the animal as it had broken out of the barn in the city. For weeks the Rouse family kept a sharp lookout for the appearance of the horse, but they finally gave it up. Early Wednesday morning the farm hand found the horse standing at the barn yard gate, and not knowing whose it was led it to the barn, where the horse picked out an empty stall to stand and be tied. This happened to be the same stall where the horse was used to be tied. Mr. Rouse called up the man in Chicago, telling him that his horse had come back to the old farm.
    That some person detained the horse for weeks is believed as the halter on the animal was broken.
    N. B.-If Mr. Rouse is a good sport he just ought to buy that horse back and keep him because of his loyalty.
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