ANCHORING A HORSE.

Evening Star, Issue 5013, 28 March 1879, Page 4

ANCHORING A HORSE.

; They tell a good story-of ■an old' ■mariner who keeps a little hotel dow£ here (writes a correspondent ,'from Coney Island, New. York's seaside resort). His wife was very anxious to have a horse, an animal in, which the old. gentleman took but little stock, andthe old lady finally won her point and got her horse. The steed wag of and playful disposition, and used, on the least provocation, to tear madly along the beach, and succeeded 'in, spilling, the .oldJady several times. At: last: the captain, who had never driven'the beast, volunteered to break a impf 1 his vicious habit; so getting another old.salt to aid him, he ptocured a kedge anchor with a stout line attached.-' Fastening the end of .the line around the-axle, and putting the anchor in the waggon, the fiery untamed was hitched up and the two gents started out. for a drive along the shore, j "Soon the vicious charger espied something which gave ,him an excuse to ruip. away, and immediately dashed off "captain dropped • the ; reins,,'., and summoned all hands to " let. go. the anchor. "', r ! The anchor was let go, : and caught firmly in the sandi; The unsuspecting quadruped pranced joyously alongj until h he got'tpj-the end of the rope, and then he paused —pau'sed, so suddenly that the waggon was .de-molished^-and' the. two old gentlemen shot vp in the air like'a'couple of skyrockets, coming" down in a- fearful dilapidated eonditidhY .■' .;. '••.-.;,