The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-16
NOW FOR A HORSE LAUGH.

NOW FOR A HORSE LAUGH,
supposed Attempted Suiaids Of . ssddl>
Nag In the East River.
Society shivered when it read this
announcement in the New York
morning papers:
"A gray horse. sixteen hands in
height. harnessed with . saddle and
blanket. was found in the East river.
at the foot of Fifty-fifth street, last
night. The animal was rescued and
the police sent out . general alarm
for an owner. II is not known how
the horse got into the water"
Could it be possible that one of the
darlings Of the horse show had fallen
into the river, and. what ia worse.
into the hands of the police? Surely
society has had enough of police cases
at the show. Yet the drenched horse
was the fashionable color, the correct
height. and was properly equipped.
Shortly before s o'clock one night
two small boys sitting on the edge
OF the pier saw a big. moving OBJ
ject coming slowly up the stream,
against the current. The bows
scrambled back thinking that . sea
monster was going to land at East
Fifty-ninth street. They yelled for
the police. Policeman Powers hur-
ried down to the pier. looked out
over the leviathan and suddenly re-
membered that he was OF post.
But his courage returned, and he
and the two boys took longer
look at the laundering animal.
ats an ornithorhyncus." said
Powers.
"Er hipperpotamus," suggested one
of the boys.
"Yawp. dat's q rhinoceros," said
the other boy.
A snort. followed by q neigh and a
plaintive whinny. came from the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Then Pow
ers' mighty brain and eagle eye
served him we'll.
''It's horse" he said.
The pier is twelve feet above the
water. Powers eagle eye spied the
private bath house of Colonel Konig.
just north of the pier. His !
eagle eye spied furthe.. and saw that |
entrance to the bath house was eff |
[ected through a door that opened |
into the stream His eagle eye meas
lred the door and the horse. and told |
him that the horse could not enter
the door. Then his mighty brain
.ook hand. He must get the horse
INTO the bath house. All. a thought.
Boys" he said. speaking rapidly
IS many great men do when their
'rains are galloping. "boys. get a
BOAT. Get oars, too. Row ont to the
horse. Don't row ahead of him. or he 1
will eat you. Don't row on either
ide of him. or he will swamp you.
DON'T row too close to his heels or he
will swat you. Keep a highly re-
pectable distance behind him and
hoo him on up stream to the bath
ouse." II
The boys did as they were told.
hen Policeman Powers eagle eye ,
pied a rope. He summoned more ,
clip. He opened the bath house ,
DOR. The boys drove the horse near
r. Policeman Powers dropped a rope
yer him. Then all pulled except the !
oys. who husband. The horse float
gently into the bath house. Bang )
ent the door, and Policeman Powers
ad arrested another suspicious char :
ter under strong presumptive evil 7
snce OF attempted suicide. for an ex-
a rope was found around his neck.
he prisoner was rubbed dry and a
wv blanket was put on him. He was g
lained to the dungeon walls with a p
'pe and locked up for the night. In 5
e morning all East Fifty-ffth street
rned out with ropes, and after much .
llling and more yelling and lots of
gle eye and mighty brain. the pris- Z
Ter was landed on the dock and .
arched at the head of a triumphant s.
occasion to the police station. The
isoner is still unidentified. The e
rcicsl failure of the horse show is j
pposed to have discouraged the Il,
rise and caused his rash act. N,