Horses, like people, are good and bad. One Kentucky thoroughbred named Sande was a good horse and the faithful mount of Capt. John H. Craige of the marine corps. Capt. Craige, an aide to Gen. Lejune, had been ordered to Haiti and he feared that the 22-year-old animal would fall on evil days.
If you had such a horse and loved him as did Capt. Craige, it is likely that you would have him killed rather than abandon him to the uncertain treatment that many an old useless horse has received. And that is exactly what Capt. Craige decided to do. He was just about ready to shoot the horse when his orderly approached breathlessly with word that his office had been flooded with applications for the horse.
Now Capt. Craige is considering offers from a congressman, a colonel of the marine corps and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, among others, who want to care for the animal. But Sande must be guaranteed a good home before his master will turn him over.
From page 3 of The Concord Times, Monday, August 24, 1925
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