The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-26
A HORSE IN A TRANCE.
Remarkable Experience of Aged
Mare on q Maryland Farm.

Felix Hubbard is tiller Of the soil,
says the Baltimore Herald; The little
patch of mother earth he calls his own is
located to the east of the city about one
mile beyond Bayview asylum and a half
mile north Of Eastern-avs Access is
OFF from Eastern-ave. and winds about
near the Hubbard farm house. Year in
and year out Farmer Hubbard has worked
away and sown his seed. The earth has
yielded him a comfortable income
His only assistant in his honest occupa-
ton has been his faithful mare, Bess by
name. For over fifteen years the animal
has been in the possession of Farmer Hub
bard, and even when he purchased her she
was not so young as she used TO be. How
ever the investment was a good one, and
when Farmer Hubbard went to the stable
last Sunday morning and found old Bess
make her entree to the place where all
dead horses go, he remarked that, though
her blowing days were over. she never
kicked at work and had earned her long
rest.
The old mare was certainly in bad way
1t was only after great difficulty that the
upright had to be lacked up with ropes
Thinking a little exercise would do her
good, Mr.. Hubbard led the faltering mare
out into the barnyard, but no sooner had
fell over as if reconciled to the inevitable
Shortly after 3 O'Clock in the afternoon old
BeSS kicked the bucket.
The body of the faithful mare lay in the
yard all night, and the next morning Mr..
huDDdra borrowed a mule from relative
named Cromwell, and, making fast a rope
to the hind legs of the dead horse. the body
was dragged over field and deposited
alongside a small stream about an eighth
of a mile from the barn. The next day
CTuesday) Mr.. Hubbard gathered a lot OF
brush and covered the dead animal en-
tirely.
Friday afternoon the farmer noticed
horse grazing i'm the vicinity Of the stream,
and without delay went over to invests
gate how the least of burden got into his
place, and TO see whose horse IL was. There
was some thing familiar about the animal
He wondered where he had seen ii before
When he got alongside the beast he was
nearly paralyZed. IL was old Bess-alive
but alive. very much alive. When the
farmer recovered from his surprise and re-
assured himself that the animal was not
spirit from the horse heaven he secured
the red mare by the forelock. She walked
meekly with him to the stable.
Mr. Hubbard called his sister to the
stable so that she might Identify the mare
ing. Leaving the stable the bewildered
farmer trotted off to pay a visit to the
last resting place OF his faithful equine
Old Bess was not there. The brush which
had been heaped upon the body was strewn
about. Then he felt convinced that Bess
had surely risen from the dead
Mr.. Hubbard, on returning TO the barn,
found the mare standing, as OF Old in her
stall. Since her return to life the mare has
given no symptoms of leaving il in the
near future. 1t is the supposition that the
mare was in trance for five days. TO all
appearances Bess is as sound as an old
dollar. but is as homely as the general run
OF aged horses. She Is dark bay with a
white forehead and white locks at her hind
heels.