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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1908)
TIIIFFY TDUFFIF y&l . Li ..U 1 id nr. f ffl Y v r vua 'I ill . i nil 9 f -JLXXXi r n-r n n r- DUUlAl" J Tin, JMJtKUH 1, 1SWJ. Fluffy PvufHcs was kind hearted, and it often made her sad When horses were ill'treated by drivers coarse and bad, So she resolved toward helping them, to do her little pan, By joining a society which had their good at heart. So Fluffy got a book of Rules and badge of membership, And signed a pledge to interfere when drivers use the whip r And one day on Fifth Avenue she saw a poor old horse Whose driver was attacking him with most unseemly force. "Don't strike that horse another blow' she cried in accents clear, When a motorist, a horseman and a post man stopped to hear ; And seeing Fluffy Pvufflcs several more men crossed the street And a gallant hansom cabman dared the driver off his seat. Then some tender hearted college boys said they knew of a farm Where the horse would be well cared for and live secure from harm ; So they took the horse out of the shafts , and led him down the street, While the driver watched them helpless and acknowledged his defeat And still from every quarter the men were seen to flock, Till the street was jammed with people and the cabs got in a block ; And Fluffy was surrounded by such sympathetic men That she vowed she'd never, never try to save a horse again. So, holding very high her head, and looking very proud. She haughtily departed from that sympa thetic crowd, And next day she resigned her badge. I m grieved to find," said she, "The work, though interesting, is too conspicuous for me." (COPYRIGHT. 1908. Bt THE NOW. YORK HERALD "Wfyj ntM if
