r appetite?"

His wife replied: "No, William, but I had a dream that disturbed me."

"Why, what could it be to affect you in that way?" said her husband.

"Well, I will tell you," said his wife. "I dreamt I saw our colt Prince;
he seemed as if he did not eat the grain hay you gave him. Then seeing
he did not eat the grain hay, you gave him some alfalfa hay. He did not
eat much of that either, so you thought you would give some crushed
barley. When you saw that he did not eat that, you turned him out of the
barn into your fine alfalfa pasture. He ate a little of the green feed,
but was still very restless and discontented. So you turned him out
where he could get wild feed and have plenty of chance to run. After you
turned him out he just browsed a little, and ran up the road and down
the road snorting and arching his neck very prettily; his smooth, sleek,
glossy, black coat shining in the sun made him look fine and handsome.
You could not make out what was the matter with him, for he seemed well
but was so restless; not contented in any place or liking any kind of
feed. So you thought he might be lonesome and you turned out some horses
to run with him. But he seemed to pay no attention to them, ate little
and was getting more restless and discontented all the time, not even
enjoying his freedom nor knowing what to do with it. He would every now
and then run up and down the road as if not knowing what to do with
himself.

"Once in his restless mood he went down the road, and there was a
beautiful young lady sitting near the gate leading to her house. She saw
him coming and noticed how handsome he was, and she thought how fine it
would be to have that noble looking horse to ride and keep it for her
use. So she opened the gate and came to the road and stood waiting for
the colt. When he came to where she was, he looked at her and arched his
neck, and she thought he was handsome; and smiling she went up to him
and just placed her hand on his neck and patted him: then she talked
sweetly to him and passed her hand over his face several times, and he
seemed so quiet and gentle that you would have thought that it was her
he had been wanting, and she seemed to know by intuition that she had
got him in her power; so she opened the gate and he followed her in.
Then she knew she had got him sure, and he was just what she had wanted.
She petted him a little more, then put a bridle on him and then a
saddle. Then she mounted him an