River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-03-10
A DRIVERS EXPERIENCE.
Slack Reins a. Check "a Horses speed.
A Newburgh New York. correspondent
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slack Reins a. Check "a Iiorsc's speed.
A Newburgh New York. correspondent
says
The McMann mare was beast OF ex.
traordinary speed and endurance. Like
most rare animals, whether brute or human.
she was eccentric in her ways. Ii mattered
not who owned her the time Of the incident
to which this article relates. Suffice it To
say her owner was sensible man and n
thorough horseman, his prediction for
horsehesh, more than anything else, having
driven HIM into the livery business. Next
to the wife Of his bosom he loved the Me-
Mann mare. For this reason the mare we
intrusted only to particular custom and
when let the person who hired was always
carefully instructed as 10 the popularity
OF the animal. An old friend. Uncle Joe
Rchelleu, unacquainted with the animal or
her ways, aud troubled with an impediment
in his speech, as well az an infirmity of tenn.
per which prevented him from using any
charity for living creatures of slow and
tardy motion, applied to the livery-man for
horse for a journey of a dozen miles or so.
taken for the purpose of bringing his wife
home from her fathers. The contract was
made as follows:
w-w-want horse-a good 'un-one
that'll s-s.start the minute YOU s.s-sa.say
Pw.pwh-pwhist,' a-and-andll 60 like thun-
dern
Suit you, ] guess" was the reply.
" We-we-well, out with her Them
The mare was put between the shafts of
nice light buggy, her harness thoroughly
adjusted by the owner, the rcins carefully
laid over the dashboard, and the usual
chapter of advice given concerning her man
gaement
30, g-g-git out with your directions. |
can drive, guess, d-d-dam y-y-you own
the fastest PAGER alive here interrupted
Uncle Joe, and picking up the reins he
sprang for the seat, but landed heels ~ on
the buggys bottom. The mare was off, but
the driver being game, had command, as he
thought, through recovery of the lines,
upon which he pulled as though resolved
" to do or die" A slight smile was visible
on the demura face of the stable-keeper as
the vehicle receded from view at a break
neck speed, and nothing more was known
until the next day, when Uncle Joe made
his appearance with the mare, but without
the wife. AS he drove up a cloud Ger.
spread his face as he saw the stable keeper
at the stable door.
W-w-what k-k-kinds of an incarnate
b-br-brute dive ca-call this Pn
Best horse in the stable.'
Ww-well, started for ID - ="
"Yes, know it."
"W-well, before | could stop went to
H (thirty-fve miles drove back this
morning. You k-kn-know fathers door
yard-half mile wide ~
Yes, well
"W-well, old man, br-br-bro-brother Jim.
hired man, and visitor besides, t-t-tri-tri.
tried for two hours to get w-wi-wife into
the wagon and couldn't do it DID de-devel.
sh critter danced college hornpipes all
r.r-round, an-an-and over some of us, but
not passenger got in"
How did you get in ?o
"Tell you. Old mans foxy as Mace
I old Inc to take her out. / did Told me
to g-g-set in. l did, and after got in they
hitched the mare, and hehe-here l be
W-w-w-wouldn't give Spanish dollar for
the mare, though she did come the twelve
miles in f.fo-forty-two minutes
"WhY?''
"Look at my hands"
They were one blister. The stable.keep
er smiled. "If you had listened TO me al
this would have been avoided allow tn,
lines to remain untouched until you are
seated, and she never starts till you tell her
| Drive her with slack rein and she will &c
as slow as you desire"