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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Then the thief fell on his knees and begged the Mayor to pardon him, promising him to live and die an honest man. And he kept his promise. He engaged in business, and, aided by Tip-Top's advice and influence, made a large fortune." "What became of the Talking-Saddle?" asked Buster John. "Well," replied Mr. Thimblefinger, "Tip-Top hung the saddle in his front porch, as you have seen farmers do.
"Once when I was listening through a keyhole," said Mr. Thimblefinger, placing his tiny knife and fork crosswise on his plate, "I heard a story about a Talking-Saddle." "Tell it! tell it!" cried Buster John and Sweetest Susan. "I suppose you have no pie to-day?" said Mr. Rabbit. "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Meadows, "we'll have the pie and the story, too." Mr.
"'How much money is it worth? "'Two thousand pieces of gold, your honor. "'Are you crazy? cried the Mayor. 'Why is it so valuable? "'It is a Talking-Saddle, your honor. "'What does it say? "'Everything, your honor. It warns, it predicts, and it gives advice. "'Let it talk for me, said the Mayor, full of curiosity. "'Your honor would fail to understand its language, replied Tip-Top.
Tip-Top was to sleep on his Talking-Saddle, near the wall and the Mayor and his brother were to watch from the windows of the vacant house opposite. "When night came, the watchers who had been set to guard the horse were very anxious. They were ready to arrest any one who might chance to enter. Whenever they heard footsteps approaching they seized their clubs and stood on the defensive.
The reason they looked so queer was because, although they acted like children, they were old in appearance, as old as a person past middle age. "They are country-raised, poor things! You'll have to excuse them. They don't know any better." Mr. Thimblefinger sighed as he said this, and looked thoughtful. "What about the Talking-Saddle?" Buster John inquired. "You said the story wasn't finished."
"Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Meadows. "It is for girls as well as boys. Sometimes people tell stories just to pass the time away, and if the stories have little fibs in 'em, that don't do anybody any harm, they just keep them in there. If they didn't, the story wouldn't be true." "Is that the end of the story of the Talking-Saddle?" asked Buster John. "No! Oh, no!" Mr. Thimblefinger answered.
So the Mayor sat and thought, and finally he asked Tip-Top if his Talking-Saddle could catch a famous thief. "'It has just caught four common rogues, your honor, replied Tip-Top, 'and I think it can catch one uncommon thief. "Then the Mayor told Tip-Top that the most famous thief in all that country intended to steal his brother's race-horse.
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