SUCH A NICE HORSE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1981, 11 May 1875, Page 4

SUCH A NICE HORSE.

An - ; accident V winch. lately occurred j illustrates "" in "al-striting manner' .how- much ]immagination' has to dp r> with r ; fear, - It- was in the ■i town of - itewiston that the affair took .;place*ahclithad two heroines,prominent in iLewistori • society. These two ladies concluded the other day that they ' would eBJ6y-a-l)uggy ride to a friend's who lived some miles out in the country, and accordingly they went to a livery stable to engage a horse. It- so chanced that the proprietor of the stable was absent, and the only person about the premises when the ladies called was an exceedingly green ostler. Anxious to accommodate the ladies the ostler, who had not yet become acquainted with the characteristics of" the different horses under * his charge, gave them the best looking one he could find, and they drove off happy. Soon the proprietor of the stable returned, .and learned what : horse the ladies had taken, when he was terrified beyond description. The horse in question, was a vicions .-runaway brute no one dared to drive—a genuine four-legged demon, such as are sometimes read of in descriptions of the feasts of Mexican vaqueros. The situation in which the liveryman was placed was one requiring instant-action, arid taking another team he followed the ladies, sparing neither whip nor voice. He failed to overtake them, however, and much to his surprise, •upon reaching the place of their destination, saw the dangerous horse tied to the fence with the carriage in good condition. Hurrying into the house the liveryman found the ladies, and upon asking them if they had met with any accident was answered in the negative. Then they both broke out in praise of the horse they had driven. "He was a splendid horse. He travelled nearly all the way awfully fast, in great, big* jumps, and they didn't have to touch him with the whip !" they were asked if they had any trouble in passing teams.. They, said they had not, as everyone who saw them coming got out of the way and gave them the whole road.' The liveryman went away relieved- and happy, but he took the "nice" horse with, him, and the ladies have not yet been alarmed by the knowledge of what terror their ignorance saved them.