Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-15
MIR. AND MRS. eoWsER.
The Former Buys a Horse and the Latter
 Gets Even With Him.

Gets Even With Him.
 At 3 o'clock the other afternoon I acci- dentaly caught sight of Mir. Bowser skuIking about the back yard. He had acted very rest less st dinner time, and 1 at once felt that omething was wrong. A caller came and could not get out to the barn for half an hour, and then it was too late A horse stood in the stall, and MT. Bowser stood looking at the horse.
 Have you-you," gasped.
 Have l whatp
 Bought another horse, after those two dreadful failuresF
 Dreadful failuresl I bought one horse and he objected to the neighborhood. The other liked the neighborhood, but you ob- iected to his color"
 "Mr. Bowser, please don't buy another horse. We don't need one, you know, and you will surely get swindled."
 "Swindledl l get swindled on Q horsei Mrs Bowser, the man who can swindle me on horse has yet to be bornl l know em from ears to heels 1 can read 'em like so many books We need horse. Here was a chance for great bargain and improved it." I'm so-so sorryr'
 That's just like you, but 1 can't help it. don't propose to throw hundred dollars over my shoulder. bought that animal for s2O0, and just in time to head off man who would have been glad to pay $500. wouldn't take S400 for him as he stands there"
 l was much put out, and after time NIT. Bowser followed me into the house and said: "Just wait week and if he doesn't turn out all right I'll sell him for the $500 and give you the extra Sl00."
 Nothing further was said until the next morning, though in the meantime l heard Mir Bowser telephoning about condition powders, bran mashers, toe weights, quarter boots, handholders and throat sweaters It seemed to me that he ordered about $50 worth of those things. Twice ill the night he got up and raised the back window to listen, and he w,ts out of bed and out to the barn with the first beams of daylight He came into breakfast with smile all over his face, and announced:
 Mrs. .Bowser, yourself and your child are invited to sleigh ride after breakfast"
 "Y ou don't mean itI'
 But do. Not only that, but hope to show you gait that e:M throw snow in the eyes of all who foiAow."
 He hol borrowed a neighbor's cutter and Seiis, and after breakfast got ready. Mir. Bowser said it was better to make our start from the barn, and when got out there l found a lengthy, raw boned, wild eyed equine paving the floor and working bis ears and anxious to be off.
 ''He looks dangerous" said after watching him a minute.
 ''So does stuffed lion, but he isn't. How ever, if you are coward I'll ask Mrs John son to go."
 "Mr. Bowser, you are as pale as a ghost and all in tremble You are afraid of him yourself"
 "W-whntI Afraid of him, or any other horse hvingl You can't go with me, Mrs. Bowserl Go right into the house" held the horse while he shut the barn door, and sized the animal up as a vicious brute. fully expected a calamity of some sort, but would not back out nor let NIT. Bowser go alone. l entreated him to un- hitch, but he glared at me and replied:
 Have you gone clean daftl This horse is as gentle as rabbit, and I'd as soon jet the baby drive him. Whoa, Claudiusl Now you may go."
 But Claudius didn't go. He paved the earth and the air, stood on his hind feet and seemed to have struck circus
 "Is this blooded horses" asked of Mir. Bowser, who was looking puzzled
 Certainly. He's Fearuaught."
 ''Then he doesn't fear us, does hel And do ! FeaTlGuRHb uOTScS dlNdlS 20 lueSS cunning tricks before they start of 70
 Keep still Go on, Claudius!' Claudius dropped down on all fours lon g enough to use his hind feet and send the dash board of the cutter flying high above our heads, and as picked the slivers out of my bonnet 1 asked Mir. Bowser if be hadn't bet | ter let the baby drive. Just then the beast ! started. He started with sa-t of hop, skip and jump which gave me >dhe impression that the cutter wanted to get over the fence into the next yard After getting a start the horse laid himself out for a run, and as 1 re- alized this 1 said to Mir. Bowser, whose eyes hung out like onions:
 "He was warranted perfectly docile, wasn't hei This is only his way of getting down town, isn't itf'
 He's running awayr' shouted Mir. Bowser, as his hat blew of and great clod of snow whizzed by his ear.
 But you ain't afraid of any horse living, you knowi It's probably some freak on the part of Clandius. What delightful paceI"
 Whatever else could be said against the horse, he was runner. He had a contract tC draw us at the rate of a mile every three minutes, and be didn't stop to count the cost How we managed to dodge street cars, sleighs cutters and trucks and to turn three or foul COIltl LII SSsl0lJ Gtll pAellli, ONb ib VI eio perhaps, because 1 had the lines and Mir Bowser was looking for soft place to fal out on. The brute stopped after two milt dash, and when brought him up to the curb stone policeman had to lift Mir. Bowser out and give him a swallow of cordial to bracC him up.
 "I had him almost stopped when cramI caught me-" explained Mir. Bowser to thu crowd
 "Ratsp called half dozen voices "Say old man, you aren't fit to drive no such beas ss thatl"
 Nobody but a fool would have bough such brutel"
 "Come of, old man, and buy you hobb. , horsel"
 Mir. Bowser and I went home on the car We didn't say much until we reached tn house. wasn't going to say much then, bu Mr Bowser turned on me with: "Now, then, explain your conduct!" ''Whati'
 Tn snatching those lines out of my han . and trying to make a heroine of yourself Mrs. Bowser, there is limit to all thing: You have reached that limit! 1 may not b home again this week."
 But he was. Indeed, he has been yer humble ever since. He got rid of the hors next day, gave mo money for spring bon net, and it is mutually understood that " don't refer to the past.-Detroit Free Press , Unmasked. 3 There used to live a learned man,
 As wise as wise could be;
 You'd find it very hard to find
 wiser man than he
 Had -+,id,ad nIl the olooies