The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-12-10

thrown and butchered up By . vicious
horse, but to b battered Up and down
1iks akpebble . 81 . chilfs rattle by
thundef ou5, clumsy beast that wouisint
run away a dynamite wdu sxj,loded
under Il u TO be guilty Of conduct un-
becoming an officer and gentlenian.
oh. Of all the torturing things of this
life, that loadof equine ,lumber Ii the
worst. HI, Griesettoir aloud, don't give
him tob much head or he'll Qet away
and you'll fnd Yourself Maxeppaing
over into the Wind river country r s.a
Lieut.. Grissette laughed scornfully,
and dug his spurs into the beasts
flank. They disappeared out to east.
ward. "I'll bet eight dollars his hip
bones are up under his ears in a quar-
ter Of an hour" Naseby groaned In con-
fidential tones to Crary. The latter re-
fused to take the bet. The Jther two
military men set themselves about
making their companions comfortable,
cheerfully promising Naseby that his
broken leg should be reset in three
hours, and his ribs, fractured by the
spirited horse when it stood upon him,
should be dug out and trimmed prompt.
ly. "It is all the fortunes Of war, old,
boy" said Henderson, Of Douglas.
"Think what fame It will be for you
to go lolling around the post with q
pack Of broken bones, received while
on duty at the front. envy you.
Only you must let me give you some
lessons in horsemanship before you try
any more Of these unknown and dery
mountain beasts. They are wild as
lightning streaks."
Naseby and Crary thought of the
rumbling, slow, stupid old crate of
bones which they had ridden, and
"Helloi" yelled Henderson. There's
Grissctte. Wounded, tool"
There 10 no need to tell Of the lie of
Gri@ette. It was simply irreproach-
able. and Naseby and Crary, looking at
each other, were ashamed of the paltry
and weak tales they had told. And
when an hour later they picked up
Henderson and Benswick mounted and
cheerily rode away, Henderson scared
in the mountain clouds of fiction to de-
scribe the wicked spirit of the horse,
while every man of them excepting the
untried Benswick knew the animal had
simply hobbled along just out Of view
of the stage. And Benswickl It is
distressing to guess what his thoughts
must have been. He realized perfectly
well that the four others had lied about
their fearful experiences and had mere
ly been shaken and rocked into human
pulp, and yet he swore positively that
the mount had stood upon its head and
had turned three somersaults in the
air before picking him up in its teeth
and shaking him like corn-popper.
IT can ride lively horses, but this one
IL too lively" he said sadly, and hinted
about dislocated collarbone. caved-
in skull and broken arm.
They allagreed that 1t would be suicide
for anyone to try to master that ami.
NAL, SO they all squeezed into the stage
| and left It to follow If It should choose.
Did I tell you that, although there were
comfortable seats, every man Of them
seemed to prefer resting on his knees7
They were proud men, those four
officers, and although each knew the
other was vilely lying yet they all per.
sistently told and retold of their hurts
T: and when they got to the main body II
was odd to see how every one Of them
insisted that some other fellow wac the
worst sufferer and ought to go first tc
the surgeon, and how finally, in Spartan
1 fortitude, they all decided to bear then
| injuries without medical assistance.
| This Is the first time the history OF
the case has been recited, but when next
anyone remarks in your hearing that
+! no soldier or officer was injured in the
course of the Jackson's Hole campaign
you tell him he is mistaken.
War ia indeed terrible thing.-Chi
cago Record.