Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-27

w 'iie iCooue. bftli tue HOrSe- pOllCe al
ways carry the lasso on the back part of
their saddles, and they sometimes use
them also in broad daylight, fthey want
to catch anybody.
There is law in Valparaiso against
galloplng through the streets. and a
most excellent law it is too. for nobody
would be safe minute otherwise from
being run over, whenever he turned a
corner; but the strangers who came here
did not agree with it at all, especially
the Americans, and besides that, all sea.
men in particular, fight hand and foot
against it. If they get on board of a
horse, they do not want TO log two or
three knots: they must also have, of
course, a pair of those large Chilean
spurs. if they only mean to go couple
OF miles on pleasure trip, and therefore
are in continual quarrel with the police:
always ending to their disadvantage.
sometimes with walking home, and pay
ing fine besides. A vessel came i'm not
long before, from Baltimore, and some of
the passengers, of course, must go right
In the very first hour to livery stable
tand you see the sign-boards with horse
and Livery stable" painted to the right
and left all over town, and each hire a
horse for a trip into the interior. The
man who let the horses to them, acauain-
ted them. of course, with the laws, and
warned them not to gallop so long as
they were in the streets but what did
they care the man only told them this.
they fancied, not to have his horses rid
den hard, and digging their spurs in,
away they went. But they had hardly
passed the first corner, the stable-boy
looking after them with grin-for he
knew the econseguenceS-when they heard
the call of the first policeman. Three of
the horses being used to this cry, came
suddenly to halt, nearly throwing two
of their riders over their heads, and were
far too well satisfied with the law itself,
to be induced, either by whip or spur, to
move step till the police officer came up
and had chance of giving the riders a
fair warning; but the fourth, a young,
lively, and rather wild animal, with a
good rider upon its back, and the sharp
wheel of the spur in its side, never stop.
ped, but did its utmost to get out of
harms way as soon as possible. The
police officer called again, and seeing it
was no Use also spurred his horse. and the
chase began.
The American, Green Mountain bov,
who had ridden many Saturday night
at wilder speed than this, perhaps, and
not fearing these g Spanjoles, as he calls
them, was satisfied with having such
good horse under him, and cared little
about the rest. On they went, the peo-
pie getting out of the way, and looking
after the wild, but not uncommon chase,
though rather astonished at seeing a for
eigner ride so we'll But even the police
man found out at last that he should not
oyertake him till they got out of town,
and not wishing to leave his station so
far, he gave last warning and loosened
his lasso. On seeing that was not obeved,
he whirled the dangerous weapon a cou-
pie of times round his head, and while
the moose darted off, and his own animal
reared back, the astenished Green Noun
tain boy was suddenly caught round the
alms and jerked somewhere, he did not
know where, till he recovered from the
fall, and found himself bruised all over,
in the hands of the police, and obliged to
pay a certain amount of dollars and reals
for the pleasure. -Gcrstaecker's Vougc
round the World.