The Carbon Advocate

Indian Sagacity
A Spanish traveler met an Indian in the desert, they were both on horseback. The Spaniard, fearing that his horse, which was none of the best, would not hold out to the end of his journey, asked the Indian, whose horse was young, strong, and spirited, to exchange with him. This the Indian refused. The Spaniard, therefore, began a quarrel with him. From words they proceeded to blows. The aggressor, being well armed, proved too powerful for the native. He seized his horse, mounted him, and pursued his journey.
The Indian closely followed him to the nearest town, and immediately went and complained to the nearest judge. The Spaniard was obliged to appear, and bring the horse with him. He treated the Indian as an imposter, affirming that the horse was his property that he had always had him in his possession, and that he had raised him from a colt.
There being no proof to the contrary, the judge was about dismissing the parties, when the Indian cried out:
"The horse is mine, and I'll prove it."
He immediately took off his mantle, and with it instantly covered the head of the animal. Then he addressed the judge:
"Since this man affirms that he has raised this horse from a colt, command him to tell of which of his two eyes he is blind."
The Spaniard, who would not seem to hesitate, instantly answered:
"Of the right eye."
"He is neither blind of the right eye" replied the Indian, "nor of the left."
The judge, being convinced by a proof so ingenious and decisive, decreed him the horse, and the Spaniard to be punished as a robber.