SHE KNEW THE BEAST.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 6, Issue 506, 25 November 1876, Page 2

SHE KNEW THE BEAST.

“ You see this boss, don’t you f" called out a woman about forty years of vge, as she drove up to a grand Liver avenue blacksmith shop yesterday. The smith came out and replied that his sight was good. “ I want a shoe on that hind oot right at once,” she continued, and had the horse almost out of the old waggon before the smith reached the curbstone. She led the beast into the shop, sat down on the bench and prepared to take a smoke, and as the blacksmith took down a shoe she observed;— No fooling now. I want the shoe to stick to that loot lor a whole year. You can’t impose on me ’cause I’m a woman.” lifter the hoof had been prepared the horse suddenly became restive, dancing around and bothering the sheer so that he could not proceed. “ You don’t seem to have had any experience with horses, ’’ remarked the woman, as sne rose- up and laid her pipe aside. “ I know this beast from Dan’l to Besheba, and yon just git back a bit.” The smith retreated a few steps, and the woman caught the horse by the bits, gave him a two hundred pound kick in the ribs, and yelled;— ‘Whoa I Charles'fienety, git around there stand over and take that—and thw and some more ! Now come np and toe the mark I Charles Henry kicked the anvil ofl the block as she kicked his ribs, but she ip«M the hardest, and when the horSe-shoer stuck his head into the shop, the horse was haU over a bench, but as quiet as a i»™i» “ Now purceed,” said the woman, as. she picked up her pipe. “ Whan tu hoss goes to look around me and oehlaf tor a tow, he's Uymgupscrrowlerhis parhMlsr-Pstsott