The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-31
OLD FIRE HORSES.
The Rulirg Passion Strong Even in Old Age
From Peck's Sun.

From Peck's Sun.
The runaway on Chestnut
street Sunday morning was a
queer affair, and wasn't a runaway
either. 1t will be remembered
that a number of old horses that
had been nsed by the fire depart
ment were sold at auction last
week. One Of them, a sleepy old
fellow, was sold and traded around
until he got into the hands Of a
man who peddled milk. The
old horse thought he had struck
something that just suited him in
his old age, and he trotted along
with the milk wagon as hapdily as
possible, and the German peddler
who did not know anything Of the
former employment of the fire
horse, smoked his pipe in peace,
and emptied his milk in pitchers
as though there was no care on his
mind. Sunday morning the Ger
man was delivering some alleged
milk into girls tin receptacle on
Chestnut street, when the fire bell
struck 317. The old hosre sim
ply raised his fore feet in the air
and made jump before the old
man could pull up on the reins,
when the beast was stopped. We
presume there never was more
astonished German IN the world
than this one milk man. was, coy
cred with spilled milk, and looking
over his shoulder at his customer
he found that he had emptied a
quart of milk on her neck, and it
was seeking its level, while she
vas looking at a broken pitcher
On the sidewalk, and swearing at
the milkman in English that was
nearly as badly broken as the
pitcher. By the time the peddler
got his. horse quieted the fire en-
CINE and hook and ladder truck and
hose cart came across the bridge, the
alarm ringing and the crowd yell
ing, and then it was that the old
horse hitched to the milk wagon
began to smell Woollen burning.
He started on a run, the milk
wagon rattling and the German
trying to hold the horse with one
hand while he kept six milk cans
right side up with the other hand
and both legs. Going over the
first crossing milk can jumped
into the air and came down bottom
side up into the Germans lap. He
fairly hoated in milk, while he
yelled: whoa du for 'omma
shimmel,' or something of that
nature. The milk wagon kept
ahead Of the engine, and at every
stroke of the bell the old horse
gave an extra jump, until he had
arrived at the store from which
the smoke proceeded, when he
turned the milk wagon up to a
hydrant on the corner and stopped
so quick that the driver went over
the dash board with a milk can
pounding him in the ear. The rest
of the fire apparatus stopped at
convenient points, and the old
horse looked over his shoulder
as much as to say, to the
other fire horses: you thought
old Tom was played out, but I no.
tice his flag is still there, and he
can teach you green colts a thing or
two about a fire department.. The
old German got out and wiped the
milk out of his neck, set the cans
right side up, kicked the horse in
the stomach, and as saloon keeper
looked at the hydrant and asked
the old man if he was going to
water his milk, the peddler got into
his wagon and drove off to find the
girl with the milk in her hair and
said: well, I tink dot old horse
vas a crank. He yoost act like
crazy ven red-headed girl comes
out NIT a pitcher for milk
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