Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1888-09-20

bird, and disappeared down the road
toward the Whashoe Valley.
II sat down on stone with a sigh,
and by natural impulse one Of my
hands sought my forehead, and the
other the base of my stomach. be-
lieve never appreciated, till then, the
poverty of human machinery-for |
still needed hand or two to place else
where. Pen cannot describe how | was
jolted up. Imagination cannot conceive
how disjointed l was-how internally,
externally, and universally l was un-
settled, mixed up, and ruptured. There
was sympathetic crowd around me,
though.
"One elderly-looking comforter said:
Stranger you have been taken in.
Everybody in this camp knows that
horse. Any child, any Mjun, could
have told you that he'd buck he is the
very worst devil to buck on the cont.
nent of America. You hear nc, I'm
Curry. Old Curry. Old Abe Curry.
And moreoycr, he is simon.pure, out
and out, genuine ID Mexican plug,
and and an Uncommon mean one at
that, too. Why, you turnip, if YOU had
laid low, and kept dark, there's chances
to buy an A11crica" horse for mighty
little more than you paid for that bloody
foreign relic.
81 gave no sign but I made up my
mind that if the auctioneer's brothers
funeral took place while was in the
Territory would postpone all other re.
creations and attena it.
after a gallop Of sixteen miles the
the Californian youth and the Genuine
Mexican Plug came tearing into town
again, shedding foam flakes like the
spumc- spray that drives before t.
phoon, and, with one final skip over a
wheelbarrow and Il CAinaman, cast an
chor in front Of the ranch. y
"Such blowing and painting. Such
spreading and contractin6oi the equine
nostrils, and such garing Of the Wild
equine eye! But was the imperial
beast suhjusated ? Indeed he Na3 not.
His lordship the Speaker OF the House
thought he was, and mounted hin to 50
down to the Capitol but the first dash
the creature made wa5 over Il pile OF
telegraph poles half as high as a church;
and his time to the CaWtol--onc mile
and three qVarters-remains unbeaten
to this day. But then he tool: an ad-
vantage--he left out the mile and did
the three quarters. That is to say, he
made a straight cut across lots, prefer
ing fences and bitches to crooked
road and when the Speaker got to the
Capitol he said he had been in the air
so much that he felt as if he had made
the trip on comet"
''ln the evening the Speaker came
home atoot for exercise, and got the
Genuine towed back behind a quartz
wagon. The next day loaned the an
imal to the clerk Of the house to 60
down to the Dana silver mine, SIX miles,
and he walked back for exercise and
got the horse towed. Every body loan
ell him to always walk ed back; they
never could get exercise enough any
other way. Still, continued 20 loan
him to any body who was willing to
borrow him, my idea being to get him
crippled, and throw him on the borrow
er's hands, or killed, and make the Dor
rowe- Fay for him. Gut somehow moth
ing ever happened to him. He took
chances that no other horse ever took
and Survived, but the always came ont
safe and sound. II was his daily habit
to try experiments that had always been
considered Impossible, but he always
got through. Sometimes he miscalcu-
lated little and did not get his rider
through intact, but lie always got thro'
himself. OF course had tried to sell
him but that was stretch of simpllc-
ity which net with little sympathy.
The auctioneer stormed up and down
the streets on him for four days, dis.
persing the populacs, nterrupting bus
lness, and destroying children, and nev-
er got BID least, never any but
the eighteen dollar one he hired Il no
toriouslv substanceless hummer, to
make. The people only smiled pleas
antly, and restrained their desire to buy,
if they had any. Then the auctioneer
brought in his bill. and | withdrew the
horse from the market. we tried to
trade him oil at private yendue next,
offering him at sacrifice for second
hand tombstones, old iron, temperance
tracts-any kind Of property. But
holders were stiff, and we retired from