The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-30


his wounded leg was oowerless. He
tried to get grip on the animals under
jaw back of the teeth. He is man of
great strength. and he thought that if
he could get the grip he might break the
jaw If he couldn't fore it open. But
he couldn't get his fingers in the mouth.
The horse all the time was trying to
rise up on his hind feet, so that he might
strike with his fore feet, but Garside was
too heavy for that Though he couldn't
left the farmer, Fountain could bob his
head up and down, and every time it
went up Garside said he though his
last moment had come. Garside hung
on with almost a death grip. He got
the two reius of the bride and worked
his unimprisoned hand down until he
managed to get the rings on either side
OF the bit in his fingers. Then he gripped
them tight. He thought the iron must
be cutting the horse's jaw in two, but
1t seemed to have no effect The big
brute kept his head going up and down
and IRON side to side, all the time try
Ing TO free himself from the grip of Gar
sides left hand. just above each ring
on the bit there was sharp steel cross
piece about three inches long, and
at last the farmer thought of using
this. He let go one ring, and selzing
the other, and the crosspiece he tried
to force it into the horses mouth. Again
the point between the jaws back of the
teeth. where he had at first tried to get
a grip with his fingers. With all his
strength he drove the sharp steel in and
up to the roof of the brute's mouth. He
pulled it back and drove it up against
there was no sign of the teeth parting.
He drove it a third time and fourth
time Now his strength was almost
gone, and he was on the point of giving
up the fight, but he gathered himself
again and drove the steel upward fifth
time. He held it there and gouged with
it and twisted and turned it. He threw
all his strength into his arm. He hoped
on his one leg to give the blow more
force.
The muscles in his hand almost gave
out and he couldn't hold the bit of steel
upright. 1t wabbled back and forth,
but he kept a pressure on it. Some way,
in the twisting the steel finally got fast
between the teeth of the brute 50 Gar
side could use it as pry. Possibly that
ceeded in prying the teeth apart frac-
tion of an inch. He says the moment
that he had succeeded in that the horse
opened his jaws.
The fight had been carried on almost
in silence. twas not until the very end
that the farmer had called Help" His
son heard that call and ran to his aid.
Though only 16 years old the boy has got
the grit of man and he doesn't know
what fear is, at least when horses are
concerned. He had driven the stallion
Fountain ever since his father had pur-
chased him, and the big animal was
afraid of him, for the boy used upon an
average two whips week to Keep him
in subsection. When young Garside ran
up now and seized the bride Fountain
got over his temper in moment and
was dociIe.
Mr.. Garside had fallen over when the
horse let go his hand. Young Garside
called for his mother, and, leaping on
the stations back, he rode to the house
ami hitched this horse up to light
wagon and was driving at breakneck
speed to Paterson, where he could get
medical attendance.
On the way there Mr. Garside became
crazy from the pain of his wounds. He
raved and screamed, but he could not
move sufficiently to do any harm. He
Gained down when he reached the doc
tors, and he sat quiet while his wounds
were being dressed.
The doctor said ne didn't understand
how he had lived, the loss of blood had
been so great. When wounds were
dressed the boy drove him back home.
He has been there since suffering intense
pain. The doctor says he will get well
it blood poisoning doesn't set in from
the wounds, and he thinks he has taken
su ficient precaution to avoid that Of
course the mangled hand will have to be
amputated. and probably the wounded
leg will always be stiff.
From the moment that Fountain
turned on Garside in the field Benefit,
ground. He stayed there during all the
fight and for a time after it was over.
Mrs. Garside thought he was so badly
injured that he couldn't get up, but
she finally got him on his feet and she
dressed his wounds and put him in the
stable. While Fountain had become do
Gle so qui ckly after young Garside
reached him he bore a grudge against
BENEFIT, aud treasured it up until the
next nj orning His stall is next to that
of Benefit. When no one was around he
broke his halter, and, prancing into
Benefits stall, he fell upon him with the
fury of the day before, and with his
powerful hoofs beat him to the floor
and began to bite and stamp upon him.
Miss Mabel Garside, the farmers daugh-
ter, an unusually pretty and courageous
young woman, heard the noise and the
pteous cries of Benefit, and she ran out
to the barn. Fountain has always been
dangerous horse to women. 1t has
been unsafe for any woman to go near
him. Miss Garside didn't think of that
At the sight of her Fountain snorted
and his fury seemed redoubled. She
seized pitphfork, and. holding it
straight in front of her, she dashed at
him. The sharp prongs struck him full
in the face. He jumped back and then
forward, as if to run her down. She
held her fork steady and looked him in
the eye Then she made another jab at
him, and that cowed the vicious brute.
She held her ground until her brother
came. He leaped on to the stall and
pummelled the horse in the face and
nose with his fists. He got him back
in the stall without much difficulty.
But now he has to be doubly tied, and
until he gets over his rage Benefit will
not be stabbed near him.