TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANAWATU HERALD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 73, 9 May 1879, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANAWATU HERALD.

Sir— -TtJ3 maa who hid the misfortune to bog his horse on. Sunday last, did not say how the hor 3 e got in the ditch. Perhaps I could enlighten his friends and the public generally on the subject. After I left home on Sunday morning, about half-past 10 o'clock, I me* the neighbor. He accosted me thus — "Hillo, I thought you was a German :" but I saw ho was suffering from the effects of blue-stone and burnt sugar, or some other drug, and perhaps from the effects of his late immersion. I asked him what was the matter. He said, " I got the old mare bogged in the ditch ?" So I asked him if he had been riding. He said " yes." I also asked if the bridle and saddle were on, und he said "ye»." I said— ''You hud better go and take it off." But the owner said "No; I would rather see the old b — — drown first." I told him to take it off, and when I cam 3 back I would help him out with his horse. I returned as soon as possible, and changed my clothes, took my sou, got some rope, and went to get the old mare out of the ditch ; but as I got near the house we were agreeably surprised to see old Polly with her head in a haystack, quietly enjoying a feed. I asked ray neighbor how the old mare got in the ditcli ? It seo:ns that morning he was seized with a sudden impulse to hare a cow-hunt, and as old Polly still had three good legs, he would let her try her best. So Polly was soon put on her mettle, but had nob proceeded far in the chase when, through the want of an eye, she landed herself and her rider iv the middle of a twelve foot ditch, with six feet of mud and water. "Hence the sad catastrophe " If the owner of the horse, should be again tempted to imbibe, or be seized with a sudden impulse to have another cow hunt, if be will be kind enough to let NO3. 1, 2. »nd 3 know a day or two beforehand, they will furnish him with a straight jacket until the impulse for hunting wears off. By so doing he will spare the poor horae ranch needless labor and suffering, and his country the expense of a Coroner's inquest.

I am, &c ,

No. 2.

7th May,