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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