Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-25
How He Paid for His Ride.


The ''small boy" was avenged in a
little affair in Madison Avenue near
Fifty y-eighth Street the other day. A
we'll known Wall Street broker out
with his wife for q sleigh ride had a
host of small boys with big sleds shout
ing after him, "May l catch on, mis-
ter?" until patience ceased to be q
virtue and he answered savagely, eyes,
catch on and be blanked." His wife
said to him: "'Tut, tut, James; you
were boy once yourself" Just then
a bright little fellow threw loop over
the rail at the rear of the sleigh, and
"caught on" The Wall Street man,
looking over his shoulder at the b
grinning face, took the whip a'n9 1
lashed the horse, which sprang forw wslu
at q great pace. "I'll show 'em some
thing" he muttered, as they neared
Sixteenth Street, the boy clinging
closely to his sled and watching the
road like a young hawk, but evidently
relishing the race. At Sixteenth Street
the man in the sleigh gave his horse a
sudden pull for a turn, with the in
tention of throwing the boy and his
sled against the curb. The young
ster was on the watch and
suddenly released his hold. The
sleigh, without his weight, tilted up on
one runner, quivered there a moment
and then tipped over. The broker
was piled up on the ecurb against which
he had expected to "spill'' the small
bov, and his wife, came down on him
with a thump that nearly took his
breath away: The horse bounded
madly away. The plucky young
ster, having had his ride, now
proved his mettle by cutting
Boston corner" and head
ing off the animal, which he did SO
quickly that he was able to bring the
horse to a stop by a few jerks at the
reins. Some bystanders helped to
right the sleigh and the boy led the
horse back in triumph to the spot
where the thoroughly shaken-up Wall
Street man was just recovering his feet
and breath. When the couple had
returned to the sleigh, the lady
whispered to her husband. and he
pulled out a piece of silver and held it
out toward the lad. "No, thank you,
mister" said the boy, II owed you
for ride" Then the crowd cheered
and the broker drove off. A Tribune
reporter heard him say last night that
he intends to hunt up that "small boy
and set him up in life.
The Untutored Critic.
The sculptor of King George on
horseback, set up in the City of Hull,
went and killed himself when young
street arab pointed out what all the
critics had overlooked, that the rider
| was without stirrups. Boston has a
| somewhat similar case except that
| the effect OF the criticism on the sculp-
tor has not yet been reported. Bos-
| ton has always been very proud of her
| equestrian statue of Thos. Ball To-
! Gated on the Public Garden. It is the
one figure of all Boston which the crit
les admit as excellent. Even foreign
ers state that there is nothing finer
in Europe. The horse has been de-
clared perfect. When they laugh at
what they are pleased to term our
| monstrosities in the way of statues
we have led the carping critic to ou1
Washington and exclaimed with pride
:sLook at this" A good Bostoniar
had friend from the country whom
he introduced to the statue. The old
gentleman looked at it some time and
finally exclaimed: "A splendid horse
but he hain't got. no tongue" And
all these years no Boston critic has
discovered that a horse with the bits
In his mouth would naturally show
his tongue.