Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-03
MR.. AND MRS. BOWSER.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THIS LIVELY
COUPLE
Mr.. Bowser Sees Bargain Horse and Bliihely Buys
It-Subssqusnt Adventures Make Him Con-
tent With Wooden SawhOrse.
Detroit EeePrsss.

very restles. at dinner time, and at once
felt that something 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 Mr.. Bo@ser
stood looking at the horse.
"Have you-you-," gasped.
"Have WHAT"
Bought another horse, after those two
dreadful failures?'
Dreadful failures bought one horse
and he objected to the neighbOrhood. Inc
other liked the neighborhoOd, but you OBJ
iected to his color"
''Mr. Bowser, please don't buy another
horfe. We don { need one, you know, and
you will surely get swindled."
".swindled get sWindlsd on horse
Mira. Bowser, the man who can swindle me
on horse has yet to be born know 'em
from ears to heels. l eau read 'em like 30
many books. We need horse. Here was
a chance 70, s great bargain, and l i'm
proved 1t"
'Tm $3.50 sOrry ~
That's Just like you, bat lean help It.
I don't propose 20 throw 500 over my
shoulj er. I bought that animal for goo,
and lust in time to head of man who
would be glad 10 pay $500. / wouldn't
take $500 for him az he stands there. Q"
I was much put out, and after a time
Mr.. Blwser followed me into the house
and said:
Cast wait 2 week, and if he doeso' turn
ont all rieh. III sell him for the $500 ard
give you the extra 500
Nothing further was sad until the next
morning, though ia the meantime l heard
Mr.. Bowser telephonipg about condition
powders, bran masnes, toe weights, quar-
ter-boots, band-ho,deTs ard throat-sweat-
ers 1t seemed to me he ordered about sou
worth of those things Twice in the night
he got up aud raised the back window to
listen. and he was out Of bed and out to the
parn with the fret beams of daylight. liz
came into breakfast with a smile all over
his face, and announced:
Mrs. Bowser, yourself and your child
are invited to a sleigb-ride after break
fast"
"You don't mean itn'
But do. Not only that. but hope
to show you a gait that will throw snow
in the eyes of all who follow"
He had borrowed a neighbours cutter and
bells, and after breakfast got ready. Mr..
Bowser said it was better to make our start
from the barn. and when l got out there l
found a lengthy, raw-boned, wild'eyed
equine paving the floor and working his
| aars and anYiOus 70 be off
''He locks dangerous" said, after
watching him a minute.
$50 does a stuffed lion, bat he isn't.
However, if you are coward, l will ask
Mrs. johnson TO 60"
'Mr. Bowser, you are as pale as a ghost,
and all in a tremble You are afraid OF
him yourself"
"W-what! Afraid of him, or any
other horse living You can't 90 with me,
Mrs. Bowser, Go right into the house,"
II held the horse while he shut the barn
door, and sized the animal up as a vicious
brute. l fully expected calamity of
some sort. but Would not back out nor
let Mr. Bowser 20 alone. entreated him
to unhitch, but he glazed at me and re-
piled
Have you gone clean daft! This horse
is as gentle as a rabbit, and I'd az soon let
the baby drive him. Whoa, Claudius
Now you may 60"
But Claudius didn't CO. He paved the
earth and the air, stood on his hind feet
and seemed to have struck circus.
''Is this blooded horse2' l asked Of
Mr.. BOwser, who was looking puzzled.
Certainly. He's Fedrnsught."
"Then he doesn't fear us, does he? And
do Fesrnsught horses alwsys 90 through
these cunning tricks before they start oit?'
Keep still! Go on, Claudiusw
Claudius dropped down on all tours long
enough TO use his hind feet and send the
dashboard of the cutter flying high above
our heads, and as 1 picked the shyers out
Of my bonnet l asked Mr.. Bowser if he
hadn't better let the baby drive. Just then
the beast started. He started with a sort
of hop, skip and jump which gave me the
impression that the cutter wanted to get
over the fence into the next yard. Alter
getting aestaIt the horse laid himself out
for q run, aud as l realized this I id to
Mr.. BOwser, whose eyes hung cut like
onions:
He was warranted perfectly docile,
wasn't he? This is only his way Of getting
down town, isn't it?0
Hes running away" shouted MI
Bowser, as his hat blew off and great
clOd of snow whizzed By his ear.
But you amt afraid ofany horse living,
you know? It's probably some freak on
the part of Claudius. What a delightful
pice!'
Whatever else could be said agains! the
horse be was a runner. He had contract
to draw US at the rate of mile every
three minutes, and he didn't stop to count
the cost. How he managed to dodge
street cars, sleighs, cutters and trucks,
and TO turn three or four corners in safety
1 can't explain, bat II was perhaps be-
cause had the reins and Mr.. Bowser was
looking for soft place 10 fall out on.
The brute stopped after two-mile dash,
and when l brought him up to the curb
stone policeman had to lit Mr.. BOwset
out and give him swallow of cordial to
brace him mp.
81 had him almost stopped when q
cramp caught me, ," explained MI. Bowser
to the crowd.
Rats" called half dczan voices. "Say,
old man, you aren't fit to drive no such
beast as thatm
Nobody but fool would have bought
such bruteW
Come OFF, old man, and buy you hob
by hOrsew
Mr.. Bowser and went home on the car.
We didn't say much until we reached the
house. wasn't going to say much then,
but Mr.. Bowser turned on me with:
Now, then, explain your conduct"
"What?n
In snatching those lines out Of my
hand and trying to make a heroine Of
yourself! Mrs. BOwser, there is a limit
to all things. You have reached that
limit! 1 may not be home again this
week"
But he was. Indeed, he has been very
humble ever since. He got rid of the
horse next day, gave me money for a
spring bonnet, and it is mutually under
stood that we DON t refer to the past
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