Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
THE TERROR OF A CITY.
". Quad Describes How Woman Pilots
Horse and Buggy.

| w. Quad Describes How Woman fhotss
Horse and Buggy.
Between the woman who wanders
about the streets showing baby car
.iage before her and the woman who
lriyes horse and buggy there is
choice. The baby carriage can some
lines be lodged, jumped over, and got
around. You can sometimes evade 1t
by climbing telegraph pole or rush.
MO into basement. If you are armed
with club and can look ferocious, the
woman will sometimes turn aside and
cripple some one else. But for the
woman who drives o horse and buggy
look out!
1 saw her start out the other day.
When the horse left the post the
woman was looking back to wave her
hand at somebody, and the lines were
on the dashboard. There was an ice
wagon coming up street, but wave she
must and did. She was almost ready
to turn her attention to the horse,
when he stopped. He had to. He had
run plump into the ice-wagon, and he
couldn't climb over it,
The woman picked up the lines,
pulled on the "gee" and then on the
"haw," ran the horse over the curb
stone, and twisted around tree, and
as she got into the street again she up
set swill-cart with the off-wheels, and
went her way with serene countenance
| When she reached the avenue she
was fussing with the lap-robe, and the
horse took long turn. There was a
street car passing, and if the driver
hadn't put on the brake and turned his
horses across the track she must have
been run down. It is doubtful if she
noticed the fact. She pulled on one
rein with both hands, told Dobbin to
"git up" and finally got away on
straight line on the wrong side of the
street, of course. A brick team crowd
ed her into the curbstone, but the smile
never left her face. A milk wagon
rubbed the fore wheel, and the milk
man yelled at her. but she looked
straight ahead. The horse finally
crossed over to. the other side on his
own account, and the street car missed
the hind wheel by such close shave
that half the passengers cried out in
alarm.
All of sudden the woman pulled
hard on the lines and cried whoa"
She had been struck at sight of new,
bonnet on passing woman, and she
wanted to see more of it. A grocer's
delivery wagon was following close
behind, and the sudden stop brought
about crash. Horse, woman, and
phaeton were slowed around and al
most upset, but the only one at all
disturbed was the horse. He didn't
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was hawed and geed and pulled into
shape, and as he logged along again
the lines were dropped while the driver
fused with her hat. Her buggy struck
the nose of horse backed up to gro
GERS door-brushed against an express
wagon skinned along the side of
street car, and finally locked wheels
with beer wagon. Nothing was brok
en-, nobody disturbed in mind or body.
A harnessmaker backed her horse out,
and headed him down street, and the
serene journey was again resumed, to
be interrupted on the next block by
the animal bringing up against the
back end OF farmers wagon.
."What in blazes-!" roared the
farmer. But he stopped there. She
had dropped the lines to tuck in the
lap-robe.
Down at the next street three men
stood talking. The phaeton crossed
over and made bee line for them and
drove them off, and then crossed back
and skinned along pile of brick and
drove four or five stone-cutters to Jump
for their lives. 1t was just half block
further that the horse was "hawed" to
cross to aphotograph gallery. Vehicles
were crossing in mob. A private car
rage was stopped dead still, fisher
mans cart backed into a sand team,
and a plumbers horse given setback
to last him for a month. But retribu-
tion was at hand. "A two-horse dray
caught hind wheel of the phaeton and
} wrenched it off, and drove splinters
into the pavement. Some one held the
horse, and some one else helped the
woman out, and when she had surveyed
the wreck she mildly observed:
Il wonder how on earth that could
possibly have happened, when I am
such good driver!"
at the wagon-shop yesterday bargain
ing for new wheel. She intends to
drive out again. No arrangements can
be made with the signal-service man to
hoist the danger signal when she starts
out, nor will the police ride on ahead
and clear the streets. The public must
look out for itself until the Legislature
again convenes and some law can be
made to cover the se.-Detroit Free
Press.
Cultivation Of WOman's Individuality.
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