AVONSIDE ACCIDENT.
TO THS EDITOR. Sib’,— On Friday my two daughters and myself started to walk to town. After crossing the tramway line at Stanmore Bridge, we saw, about fifty yards before ns, a horse and rider prancing and rearing on tho snowy road. The horse jumped round three times close to Mr Perceval’s hedge, then rushed into the road and reared nearly straight up on its hind legs. The horse then rushed on to the footpath still rearing. It stumbled on coming off the path, jumped to its feet and bolted, throwing the rider. My dogs, when the horse rushed from the river-side, started off running, but they neither barked nor did they bite nor reach the horse till just as it bolted. From your paragraph you might think the dogs rushed out barking and so frightened the horse; buc it was not so. The horse was evidently frightened by the slippery, white ground.—l am, &0., SPECTATOR.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10705, 15 July 1895, Page 2
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