It Made Me Think That Perhaps I Was
Shadowy - Invisible - Although To Myself I Did Not Feel At All That Way.
Faye wrote to Mr. Ames about Rollo, thinking that possibly he might
buy him back, but Mr. Ames wrote in reply that Rollo had already been
sold, because Mrs. Ames had found it impossible to manage him.
Also
that he was owned by the post trader at Fort Maginnis, who was making
a pet of him. So, as the horse had a good home and gentle treatment,
it was once more decided to leave him up in his native mountains. It
might have been cruel to have brought him here to suffer from the
heat, and to be frightened and ever fretted by the many strange sights
and sounds. But I am not satisfied, for the horse had an awful fear of
men when ridden or driven by them, and I know that he is so unhappy
and wonders why I no longer come to him, and why I do not take him
from the strange people who do not understand him. He was a
wonderfully playful animal, and sometimes when Miller would be leading
the two horses from our yard to the corral, he would turn Rollo loose
for a run. That always brought out a number of soldiers to see him
rear, lunge, and snort; his turns so quick, his beautiful tawny mane
would be tossed from side to side and over his face until he looked
like a wild horse.
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