|
| Owners, trainers and drivers always are |
|quick to declare that no greater courage |
|is known than that possessed and |
|demonstrated by race horses in hard-fought |
|battles on the turf, and the truth of this |
|was never more strikingly brought home |
|than in the death of Smithy Kain |
|yesterday. |
| |
| With a left hind foot snapped at the |
|fetlock, Smithy Kain raced around the |
|track, his valiant spirit and unfaltering |
|gameness keeping him up until he had |
|completed the course in unwavering pursuit |
|of the flying horses in front. Every jump |
|meant intense agony, but he would not |
|quit. Not until near the finish did his |
|strength give out, and not until then was |
|the pitiable truth discovered. Men used to |
|exhibitions of gameness in tests that try |
|the soul looked on in mute admiration as |
|Smithy Kain shivered and stumbled from the |
|pain that rapidly sapped his life. Women |
|cried openly. |
| |
| Two shots from the pistol of a park |
|policeman ended the life and sufferings of |
|the horse that was only a mongrel, but |
|who, in his equine way, was a thoroughbred |
|of thoroughbreds. |
| |
| Smithy Kain gave to his master the best |
|that his animal mind and soul possessed. |
|No better memorial can be written even of |
|man himself. |

=5. The Special Feature Story.=--One step beyond the animal story is the
special feature story. This kind of story is classed with the human
interest story because it has no news value and because its only purpose
is to entertain or to inform in a general way; and yet it rarely
contains any human interest. There is no space in this book for a
complete discussion