A CIRCUS TURN
A 20-year-old boy sat beside the driver of a lorry as it made its way through’ the streets of an English city. Suddenly there was a scattering of people, a shouting, and a clattering of wheels. A horse had bolted. The. empty Cart came banging behind it. “There’s going. to be an accident,” quoth the boy. “Try to catch that horse.” For nearly a mile the lorry chased the horse until it drew level. While both, were doing 25 miles an hour, the boy climbed from lorry to cart, at considerable risk to his neck. ■ He pulled on the reins with all his might, but they broke. Then this indomitable youth crawled along the back of the runaway until he could grasp its bridle, and so at last he stopped it. When the animal had been handed over to someone else, the boy scrambled back on to the lorry and drove away,to his next job.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 28
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158A CIRCUS TURN Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 28
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