Image 7 of Santa Fe new Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.), February 17, 1911
author: Anonymous
source date: 1911
availability: public_domain

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 1911 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SANTA FE N M PAGE SEVE1 TALE OF A GENTLE SOFTVOICED BURRO Father Bought It for the Children but Its Appetite Was so Varacious He Quickly Got Rid of It It was such a gentle burro that any father would have bought it for his children had gentleness been all that It was only 750 the father was j told and it was darkly hinted by the i children the owner was awfully poor and might take less By degrees the children worked the father up to a point where he half promised to think about it insisted that he promised to think about it convinced him that he had promised to look at it and finally told him flatly that he had promised to buy it Did he remember The father didnt remember but he knew that he might as well buy It and he did The saddle and bridle cost as much as the burro a fact he realized with astonishment What do you feed burros the mother asked I know I I know said the chil dren in chorus The man who sold him said to give him