The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-25
Bab'8 SOGiabl8 HOr88,
An Equine She Could Drive and One She Couldn't Drive
"Skate" for the Summer Months.

I have always had a weakness for
horses. The kind | like best is COM
monty and vulgarly known as the
'skate" He belongs to the breed that
can be driven by women, children or
the new cook of Polish origin. He has
a few little weaknesses of his own, but
you admire him notwithstanding what
might be called his nerviness. He never
passes a fruit store without making a
stop The finest brandy in the world
would not tempt him, but particularly
nice apple, blushing on one side, or a
tender peach, looking most too good for
this world, charms him, SO that he has
been known to really enter the shop and
demand, in horses way the fN1it that
he loves best.
This particular Skate" which / have
controlled during the summer months
unfortunately got what was called by
the gentleman who owned him "a noddl-
ty in his fore leg" During this time
we drove to our sorrow, horse, or,
rather, a mare, titan of color good OF
shape, but with n temper like All the
tempers that were ever made and then
consolidated in one horse. l never drove
her but once, and that once was quite
enough for me. She SHE'D at ragman,
ran down the road, dumped me III the
grass. sent my slippers flying through
the air. while my companions were
scratched and bruised and accused me
of trying to kill them, while, between
You and me, | think they were glad,
after the first ache was better, TO de-
scribe themselves as heroines and to tell
of the adventure after the fashion of a
detective story.
A DRIVE FOR THE CHILDREN.
After this / was centent with the
''skate," and / drove him with Il loose
rein and Il feeling that my heart was
true to him even if he did wheeze and
had queer fashion of going into the
barnyards of people who were entirely
unknown to me. He was sociable
horse. At least that's the way we have
worked out his idea. He longed to get
acquainted with the neighbors. One
afternoon the skate" whose name was
Prince, and who had good blood in his
veins-at least we were told so-agreed
with me that it would be pleasant to give
all the children a drive. SO off we went
little and big wearing hats from a linen
tam to u large leghorn laden with white|
plumes. Prince went along very well
for short time, but at the foot of a GER
tain hill he took his stand and refused
to bulge
Prince was determined to go up that
hill. and / concluded it was just as well
to let him go. and so learn what object
he had in view He piled up the hill,
while the children hit stray boys with
peanuts and fred chewing gum at the
dogs, and at the very top Prince stood
quite still and looked around at us all,
as much as to say: "Who among you
poor two-legged creatures is worthy of
monument like that? You can getI
hold of a scoundrel any day, you can get
hold of some respectable man any day,
but it is only once in a century that al
Hambletonian appears" And then the
smallest boy, who was in the second
reader. read out the inscription on the
obelisk of plain granite. He was pretty
slow about it, but he succeeded in max
ing even me understand. The inscrip-
ton read: