upshot was that - waal, I've come up the Back Pasture to-day, an'
the coupe's tipped clear over twice, an' I've waited till 'twuz
fixed each time. You kin judge for yourselves. I don't set up to
be no better than my neighbours, - specially with my tail snipped
off the way 'tis,- but I want you all to know Tedda's quit fightin'
in harness or out of it, 'cep' when there's a born fool in the
pasture, stuffin' his stummick with board that ain't rightly hisn,
'cause he hain't earned it."

"Meanin' me, madam?" said the yellow horse.

"Ef the shoe fits, clinch it," said Tedda, snorting. "I named no
names, though, to be sure, some folks are mean enough an' greedy
enough to do 'thout 'em."

"There's a deal to be forgiven to ignorance," said the yellow horse,
with an ugly look in his blue eye.

"Seemin'ly, yes; or some folks 'u'd ha' been kicked raound the
pasture 'bout onct a minute sence they came - board er no board."

"But what you do not understand, if you will excuse me, madam, is
that the whole principle o' servitood, which includes keep an' feed,
starts from a radically false basis; an' I am proud to say that me
an' the majority o' the horses o' Kansas think the entire concern
should be relegated to the limbo of exploded superstitions. I say
we're too progressive for that. I say we're too enlightened for
that. 'Twas good enough's long's we didn't think, but naow -
but naow - a new loominary has arisen on the horizon!"