Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-13
A Romance Of the Street .

IRON Lne new YORK Herald.
A spirited brown horse attached tc
a light buggy came dashing down Third
Avenue yesterday afternoon in a flu
rious runaway. There was foam or
the brown horses nostrils and fire in
his eye. Seated in the buggy was a
blue-eyed: fair-skinned boy OF some
IL years. The lads face was very
pale, but he chung pluckily to the reins
and with all his boyish might sought
to check the runaway's headlong ca.
reer.
This effort was as nothing. It was
like one of Mr.. Buddensiek's model
tenement houses seeking to stop the
course OF cannon ball. The brown
horse kept wildly on, momentarily in.
creasing his pace. Cars came to a full
stop, vehicles drew out of the way, and
pedestrians watched the runaway with
horrltied faces as they perceived the
peril Of the blue-eyed boy.
AS thehorse, tearing down the avenue,
was approaching Sixty-second Street
a broad-shouldered man, with blue
eyes and a chestnut beard, came driv-
ing up the avenue in buggy drawn by
a bright sorrel. The moment he
caught sight of the runaway ahead he
seemed greatly exercised. He did not,
however, draw close to the curb, as
other drivers had done, but, looking
sharply about him, took in the scene
with lightning glance.
From the manner in which the run.
away tore across the avenue it was ev.
identity his intention to dash into
Sixty-second Street. As soon as the
man with the chestnut beard per.
ceived this he turned the sorrel's head
into that street, and dashed his horse
to full speed, the runaway turning in
to the street after him. The sorre]
was, however, some thirty five yards
ahead of the brown horse, and at this
point the man suddenly checked his
course and made a flying Jump from
the buggy to the ground. Unfolding
the reins, he drew his vehicle across
the street in such a manner as to mar.
row the passage left for the oncomer
He then turned his back to the run.
away, watching him, however, from
over his shoulder.
The brown horse, needless of the oh.
stacle, came on at full speed. The
man did not swerve. A moment later
the runaway was upon him. Then he
suddenly turned and seized the brown
horses bride with firm grip. The
impetus of the horse dragged him for,
ward several feet, the brown horse
struggling furiously to free himself.
The man was thrown to his knees, but
not for q moment did he release his
grip on the reins. He fought his way
to his feet, and with steady nerve and
iron hand reduced the brown animal
to submission.
At this juncture a number of passers-
by came running up. They surrounded
the man with the chestnut beard,
looking upon him with admirine
glances. "You have saved that boys
life at the risk of your own: it was a
splendid act," warmly exclaimed an
elderly gentleman with white hair.
"Bah!" answered the man ad-
dressed; "that's nothing I could
hardly have done less under the cir
cumstances."
GLOW Something
"Well, you see, that boy seized the
opportunity of being left alone to take
that horse and buggy from the stable
and steal a ride on the sly. Theresult
was he was run away with"
"And what has all that to do with
the splendid way in which you saved
him ?"
"Just this-the rascal's my son."