Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-08-22
JOLIET. ILLINOIS, AUGUST %, 1s4 ,sao r55

and tail properly depressed. rs for me
felt my position as man, sir, who stand.
the superior of horses especially Of
hired horses-and all other portions Of
the brute creation. .asas
Matters went along very well until we
LETT the stone paVements. But,no sooner
had the confounded horse struck the soft
ground than he picked up HRS ears,erected
his stump tail, took the bit in his teeth.
and began to tote himself forward at an
alarming rate Of speed, Icaught hold of
the reins firmly, and tried TO stop him, in
| order to recover my hat, which felt to
be sliding of, but Knight as well have
let it alone. Sir, it is an alarming fact
4 that he would not stop.
Here WIS an awful condition of affairs.
l could not stop the horse, and had no
hat; while the sun peeped. his round face
/ from the cloud, and poured down his hot.
test, as ifmy head was alead bullet that
ne was about to melt, or an oyster pie
| that he was about to bake. Still, | did
not feel very much alarmed, until, to nv
utter dismay. heard some wheels be.
hind me, and up came two bloods in a
dashin buggy, with q fiery pair Of horses
| and they-the bloods, that s-challenped
me TO race.
Me! the father of the family! a quiet
respectable citizen! racing on the Bloom.
ingdale road! A pretty joke and so I was
about TO tell 'em, when the abominable
beast that was dragging me accepted the
invitation on his own hook, and out out
| as If sotoebody had been kindling a fire
OF shavings under his hind quarters, -
Graciousl my blood curdIes when think
of, II! Before l could say stop him!'
was out of all hearing. Phew! BIisterst
how he wentl The trees and the houses
and the mile stones went racing the other
way, as If Satan was in them. felt as
i'll was hitched to the magic telegraph.
The PRECIPITATION rolled down my cheeks
like the cataract of Niagara. The wind
had been blowing in our direction pretty
strong but we went so fast that it had to
blow the other way. Our velocity was
so great that my head got cool, because
the sun beams didn't get time to make it
hot. Thunder! it was like lightnigny.
On we went. The Black Rider and
John Gilpen, and Mazeppa, and forty 10
comotives, weren't a circumstance
People tried to keep up with me, with
their three minute cabs, but it wasn't no
manner Of use. felt that my hour was
come. l knew thatI should never be
hold Sukey, my dear wife. nor Clarina
Melissa Jane, my daughter, nor my boy
Bob. And to leave the world at such a
time, when there was every prospect of
rise in.s tocksI Il was awful! 1t was ter.
rife! tried to remember the Lords pray.
er, but couldn't. ] commenced it, and
got as far as--"Now. lay me. down to
sleeps" bun forgot all the rest. Iremem-
Der thatI had forgot my card case, and
no one would know where to take my
mangled remains, So little was pre-
pared to die. --a 400 aa
But, no ssopl AS passed tavern,
the fellows cried out-"Goit old boss !"
Useless adjuration! He did 90 il. On
we went over the bridge and up the bill
past Macomb's. Old Mrs. Maoomb and
her pretty daughter, were standing at the
door and they started back in perfect
fright. No doubt they thought that Father
Miller had succeeded in his design to
bring the world to an end, and that / was
the incarnation of the day of Judgment in
a o.eart.
But, just as I was expecting to have my
brains knocked out, and was WONDERING
how should let my wife know that nv
will was in the shird pigeon hole from the
left, in the upper row in my desk the horse
came to stony place In the road. No
sooner did bis feet strike this, than down
wen: his tail and ears, and he resumed the
same delightful position which he had as
sutisd at first. : ,-... 7'7 -.9.1 ',-,'|
But | didn't intend to tempt Providence.
No sir. | got out and led the animal by
the head, having luckily but short dis
lance TO go. WhenI arrived at my place
of destination, / sent the horse and vehi-
Gle home in the care of the osaler, while I
waited and came down in the stage like
man and christian. go - 49,. ii
Now, what excuse. do you think that
confounded Disbrow made2 He said the
horse was what had been celebrated
old racer, who took such freaks 5semi-oc.
casionally; but his demeanoF had of late
been so quiet that he had moi suspected
him ofany deviation from correct gait.
But III fix him yet some day.-ErchGnge
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