The Tale of General Custer’s Horse

“My mother was a horse.” This will come as no surprise to the reader who has seen me, because I’m a horse too. The only surprise is that I’m a talking horse, but that’s a literary 

Comanche, 1887

device as old as Aesop--and older, going back to the ancient Arabs, I’m told-- that presents talking camels, elephants and apes in addition to rabbits and crows and a whole zoo of chitter-chattering and general verbosity.

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