Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-29
English az She is Wrote.
The Daily Bee contained the following
last evening:

| The DAILY Bee contained the loilo"lhs
last evening:
This afternoon, about go, the horse attached
| to the Capital Ice Company, which was sttla
| ing in front of the sidewalk on Ih,ru stIeet
| between j and X, became frightened upon pc
| ing almost backed down by Gregory q barIles
| truck team. In plunging and rearing ABOUT, II
! in turn backed into a horse, attacked 10 u suihE
| which n. E. Dole had been driving, 0ut Whlen
he had hitched to an awning-post, rms latter
| horse reared aud kicked so energetlca!ly tlat he
| literally knocked the sulky into SmllnereeeIls,
| the seat being kicked one way. eacn Wheel IN q
| separate direction, and the shafts being DIokeu
This is singular statement throughout
and deserves the profound attention OF sci
entiic inquirers. as well as OF expert gram
marians. In the first place the remarkable
spectacle is presented of q horse attached
| to an ice company" The manner OF at
tachment is unfortunately not stated 1t
may repay inquiry to ascertain how the
attachment affected the horse and III what
manner il was effected. for other ice COM
| panies may desire to avail of the horse at
tachment, especially if it will advance the
| price of ice. Consumers OF the coonng ar
ticle are thus directly interested IN fuller
| explanation being given of the matter,
and it is to be hoped our nelghbor
will crafty this pardonable curiosity.
In the next place 1t Is desirable
to know whether the horse or the ice com
pany stood in front of the sidewalk Ii 1t
was the ice company, how does an ice COM
pany stand anyhow, and now does It's
transfer to the front of the sidewalk affect the
ice business? In the next place, how in
the name of Lindley Murray could a horse
be almost backed down into? And eSpe-
cially how can truck team back into q
horse, and at which part of the animals
body does the act of being almost backed
down into bcgin2 Or does the Bee in
tend to refer to a state or condition OF the
horse, rather than the act of the truck
team in almost getting into the horse?
Again, how far in is the reader to un-
derstand the backing process must
progress to be almost complete to
fall short of full accomplishment of
backing down into horse, and
wherein does this differ from backing
up into horse? When these physical
phenomena are clearly explained by the
Bee, will it also explain how in crea-
ton the truck team, after almost backing
into-a horse attached to an ice company
standing out in the hot sun, actually did,
by plunging and rearing, back into a horse
attached-not TO an ice company this time
to a sulky which n L. Dole had
been driving-the sulky, not the horse into
which the team entered? This sulky, be it
remembered, was hitched to an awning
post. The act of Dole in hitching the
sulky to the post and leaving the horse to
be backed into-straight into, not down
into, nor almost into, this time-is of
very doubtful wisdom. - This latter horse s"
Thy which we infer that Dole is meant, for
the personal pronoun he" is used-our
neighbor well knowing that it would be
proper if it had reference to one of the
horses, andnOt to Dole, so reared and kicked
that . he that is Dole literally knocked
the sulky into smithereens. This term is
clearly defined in the closing words of the
sentence the seat being knocked one
way each wheel in separate direction,
and the shafts being broken" So we
now know exactly what smithereens
means, to wit : horse with team in it,
kicking-the horse not the team-a sulky
seat of a sulky hitched to an awning post,
one way and " each wheel " in "a separate"
direction, etc. Any fool horse can kick
wheels in different directions, but we now
learn that a Sacramento horse has deyel-
oped q capacity for kicking each wheel of
sulky in separate directions The more
this remarkable narrative of events is
studied the more astonishing does the phe
nomena appear, for the correctness of
English as she is wrote" in the article
quoted, leaves no doubt whatever upon the
readers mind as to the accuracy Of the
statements made.