White Dandy; or Master and I: A Horse's Story

White Dandy; or Master and I - A Horse's Story by Velma Caldwell Melville. Master is Dr. Richard Wallace and I am Dandy the doctor's favorite horse long-tried companion and friend.. Neither of us are as young as we once were but time seems to tell less on us than on some others though I have never been quite the same since that dreadful year that Master was out West. He often strokes my face and says: We're getting old my boy getting old but it don't matter. Then I see a far away look in the kind blue eyes—a look that I know so well—and I press my cheek against his trying to comfort him. I know full well what he is thinking about whether he mentions it right out or not.. Yes I remember all about the tragedy that shaped both our lives and how I have longed for intelligent speech that I might talk it all over with him.. He is sixty-two now and I only half as old but while he is just as busy as ever he will not permit me to undertake a single hardship.. Dr. Fred—his brother and partner—sometimes says: Don't be a fool over that old horse Dick! He is able to work as any of us. But the latter smiles and shakes his head: Dandy has seen hard service enough and earned a peaceful old age.. Fred sneers. He says he has no patience with Dick's nonsense; but then he was in Europe when the tragedy occurred and besides I suppose it takes the romance and sentiment out of a man to have two wives raise three bad boys and bury one willful daughter to say nothing of the grandson he has on his hands now; and I might add further that he is a vastly different man from Dick anyway.