, 1876-07-09
BUTTERWICK'S HORSE.
n Costly Animal.

a Costly Animal.
Mar AdtltT IL illustrated Weekly.
IN the early part of last summer Mr.. Butter
wick bought himself carriage horse. Before
he fNirly had clnnce to enjoy it, some business
matter or other called him olt to St. Louis,
where he was detained for about six weeks.
During his absence Mrs. ButtErwick assumed
tho responsibility for the management Of the
horse, and as she knew as much about taking,
care Of horses as she did about conducting the
processes of the sidereal system, the result was
that Mr.. Buttcrwick's horse was the unconscious
parent Of infinite disaster. When BhtterwiclS
returned, and hau kissed his wife and had talked
over his journey, the following conversation
ensucd. Mrs. Buttcrwick said:
"You know our horse, dcarcst!a
"Yes, sweet; how Is he getting alongl"
"Not so very well he has cost greut deal OF
money z. T:aallf sinee 81 you've been away"
ayes, besides his regular feed, and Patrick's
wages as hostler, have on hand unpaid bills to
the amount Of 1000 on his account"
1.-TWO thousand! Why, Emma, you amaze
me! What on earth docs it mcan!"
"l1l~ten you the whole story, love- Just
after you left he took a severe cold and he
coughed incessantly. You could hear him cough
for miles. All the neighbors complained of It !;
and Mr. Potts next door was 50 mad that he
MAS Nhooping cough"
"Whooping cough, darling' Impossible! a
horse 7sezer has whoOplng cough"
"Weli, Patrick said Sc. And as I always
give paregoric to the children when they cough,
concluded that 1t would be good for the horse,
so bought buckctful and gave it to him with
sugar"
"A bqeket1u q , 11.t Of pgsarcgonc my Lowell 1t was
Patrick said that was regular dose for, 4
horse qt sedenta5y habts; and It didn't kill him
Henry, dear to learn that thoh horse slept straight
ahead for four weeks Mover woke up once. I
WIS frightened about It, but Patrick told me
that It was sign Of good horse. He said
that Dexter often slept six months on stretch,
and that once they took Goldsmith Maid to
race While she was sound asleep and she trottcd
mile in 2:15 think he said, without getting
awake"
"Patricx said that, did hel''
"Yes; that was ut the end Of the second week.
But Us tho horse didn't rouse up, Patrick said it
couldn't be the paregoric that kept him asleep
so long; and he came to me and asked ME not
to mention 1t, but he lade suspicious that Mr..
Potts had lnesnasrizcd him."
II meyer heard Of horse being mesmcrized,
dcarest.'
"Neither did I, but Patrick said it was COM
mon thing with the bottcr class Of horses. And
when he Kept Oh sleeping, dear, got frightened,
and Patrick consulted the !hor5e-doctor, who
would wake the horse. They fixed the wire to
his leg and turned on the current. It did rouse
him. He got up aud kicked fourteen boards out
Of tho side Of the stable and then jumped the
fence into Mr. Potts yard, where he trole on a
litter Of young pigs, kicked two cows to death
said he tried to swallow Airs. Potts. baby; but
didn't see him do that.n
ssThat man that sold him to me didn't mcn-
tion that he was fond OF babies"
"But he got over the attack. The only effect
was that the paregoric the electricity or some
thing turned his hair all the wrong way, apd he
looks the queerest you ever saw. Oh yea; it
did seem effect his appetite, too. He appeared
to be most always hungry. lie ate up The hay
the best carriage. AND one night he broke nut
and nibblcl off ell the door-knobs on the back
of the house, and ato three sheets and 4 pair Of
drawers from the clothes-line, besides four GRO
quet balls and one Of my old hoop,skirts!'',
ness for door-knobst''
Yes; and ate Lo,lse's hymn~bools, too, She
left it lying on the table on the porch. Patrick
said he knew man in Ireland whose horse
Bibles. II lie couldn't get Bibles he'd take
Testaments; but unless lie got Scriptures Of
some kind, he Was utterly intractablc.'
sweet"
$50 We got the horac doctor again, and he
said that what the poor animal wanted was
hypodermic injection Of 1norphia tu calm lis
nerves. He told Patrick to get a machine for
placing the Marphia under the horses skin. But
Patrick spil that lie could do It without the
machine. So one day he got the morphia, and
began to bore hole In the horse with u giullct."
IA gimlet, Emmaa"
san ordinary gimIct. But it seemed unpIcas-
ant tothe horse, and so he kicked Patrick through
the partition, breaking three of his ribs. Then
4! got the doctor toPerforn the operation proper
y, and the horse after that appeared right well,
excepting that noticed that he had suddenly
acquired an extraordinary propensity for stand
ing on Ills head"
"l1e Is thc first horse that ever wanted to do
that, foyc.n
s'patrrk said not, He told me about man
he worked for in Oshkosh who had team of
mules which always stood on their heads when
they were not at work. lie said all the mules |
in Oshkosh did. So Patrick tied a heavy stune to
our h9Isc's tail to balanee him and keep him
took tue horse to church one Sunday, when |
while crowd stood round him looking at him,
he swung his tail round aud Drained six boys
with the stone"
Drained them, lovc9''
swell, didntsee them myself; but Patrick
told me, when l CAME out OF CHURCH, that they !
wcrr Us good Us deatl. And he said lie rclneln-
bered that that Oshkosh man used to coax his !
mules to stand on their legs by letting them
Patrick got > friend to {pme around and sit in
accorlcop."
"Did'it make him ca1mcrs''
It seemed to, at first; but one day Patrick |
to bleed him for the blind staggc1a, |
and he must have cut the horse III tile wrong |
place, for the poor brute fell over on the accnr-
deon person and died, ncarly killing the music
l4n."
bill!''
am read It to you:"
THE BlLL.
Horse doctors fees. s1o5 90
taresorlC tnr cQngh... .-....-....... SG.W |
liaivanic unttcry. IT, 90
Repairing stable Observation-Disclosures. Il "a
['n1ts' cnw, pigs xpples trees, and baby 25l 90
damage TO donr. knobs, ctc...-........... 175 90 |
L0nls4's hymn t>ok. k....-................ Ii |
limlet and injections. -.......... ...... 15.on !
Repairing Patrlek's ribs: s:-.-.-,.......... 145 90
Music on accorlcon on....-...+-.-......... 81 o.
Damages to player. 49,. ......-........ 134 90
Burylng six boyy.... ...,.................... 09auO