Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-21
C0NNECTICUqrS KICKING HORSE.
The AbIest Kicker in the state, but
Very Considerate to Her Attendant

The AbIest Kicker Ia the States Dut
Very Considerate TO Her Attendant.
In a big stable in Voluntown, in
which are thirty horses, is the, most
famous kicking horse II the state.
She is not, writes a Norwich, Conn,
correspondent to The New York Sun,
like ordinary horses that kick, but she
has a talent for unique and finishing
kicking. Her owner keeps her be-
cause She is an equine curiosity. She
kicks continually, and when there is
no live thing to kick at, the neigh
bors say. she stays up nights pairing
off the top of the stall with her heels.
One evening few days ago, a Nor
wichstrout hunter, in prowling about
the stable, unconsciously sauntered
UP toward the kicker to get a nearer
view of a glass frame, over the stall,
in which was brown-paper placard,
bearing the single word, in black ink,
Dangerous. " He had just mastered
the word when there was a couple of
sharp reports, and a small splinter
from the top board of the stall fell at
his feet.
"Hi, therel" yelled a hostler, who
was rubbing down a team of horses,
eff you don't want to be kicked out OF
the town you'd better come away
from that stall. That's the kicking
horse.
"What! Does she kick" innocent
ly inquired the visitor, as another ex-
plosion followed, which lowered the
stall another sixteenth of an inch.
"Kick wal -- ruther! She kicks
everything and everybody, and all
the time.
"But how do you take care CT her,
then9 Does she kick your
"Waal, not so much. She don't
kick me ofteneI than four or five times
a week; but she kin spot a stranger
every time She's a sly one, though.
Just look at her now
The mare had turned her arched
neck, and her full liquid eye, which
shone a red violet in the glare of the
stable lantern, beamed with benevo
lence, and a coaxing invitation to
come up nearer
you orter seen her kick Teller
from the village that come in here
drunk the other night, remarked the
hostler. II told him to keep away,
but he lowed he warn't afraid O. no
kickin' horse, and he walked up to the
stall and said, Sob Sal what eatin'
on YEP Just then she fetched HIM
one. She kicked him clear across the
floor, eighteen foot, without touching
ground, and landed him on the back
of a COW in the opposite stall; and
then the COW kicked him half way
back. You see the COW warn't nigh
so good a kicker as the mare. WAL,
that Teller was plumb-full when the
boss lifted him, but when he got back
from the cow he was the soberest man
you ever see. He didn't say a word,
but slid out of the stable quiet and
went home Next night he was in
here again. He came kind o softly,
and sneaked up where ] was fixin' up
the beddin' for a stall, and SAID in a
whisper: is that ar Spite. driver in
here Tonight If you mean that ar
kickin' boss, saysI !, you KIN Just bet
she is. y 'Hoss, says he; that amt
no hoss-that's a mule, saws he, a
government mule. | was hit by one
o them things in the army, says he.
1T war jest afore a battle, and she
kicked me so fur to the rear that it
took me two days to walk back. They
war goln' to court martial me; but
the same mule got loose the night
afore the trial was to come off, and
kicked down the guard tent, and
spiked two cannon with her heels.
After that they believed my story"
The Norwich man slept IN a neigh
boring hotel that night, and Whenever
he awoke, the distant, subterranean
thuds that were borne through the
moonlight to his ear gave token that
the kicking horse was keeping herself
IN practice.