The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

his new purchase bit at him in a venge-
i full way and switched his tail about
Did You select him for his playful
ness! queried Mrs. Bowser, as she no.
tlced the action.
Yes, partly" replied Mr. Bowser,
whose first impulse was to use the whip.
That is, didn't want a stone or a
| wooden horse This playful spirit is al
ways a good sign in a horse. same as
IN human being. Now we are off for
a delightful spin. and you can lay back
and enjoy yourself. BY Georgei but
this beats riding in a palace car all to
pieces! Isn't that a SPLENDID gait he's
got? Starts right off as if he had 20
| pounds of steam on
Mrs. Bowser didn't lay back and en-
joy herself. On the contrary she sat up
and watched the horse closely There
was slight limp to one hind leg; he
pulled to the right as If blind in the left
eye; there was constant click as he
over-reac hed and struck a front shoe.
| Added to these things his ears were laid
| back close to his head and held there.
and now and then his teeth grated on
| the bit.
She also saw that Mr.. Bowser held
| the reins with a careless hand and SEEM
! ed anxious to use the whip. She re-
Trained from saying anything, however,
until the buggy had been drawn over
and a heap of brick-bats on the other.
| and then she gently remarked:
IF you intend to bump into any OF
the shade trees along the street, please
give me a few seconds notice"
What do you mean by that?" de-
manded Mr.. Bowser 81 thought it was
about time you got off some mean re-
mark; The horse is going all right and
I'm doing all right. and
And the horse suddenly steered out
of his course to Craze the hind wheel
of peddIer's wagon and almost cause
a snash-up.
|
excuse at all at first. but, on second
thought, he concluded to say that 1t was
all the peddlers fault. and that there
ought to be a law to prevent cross
eyed man from driving anything but
rhinoceros on the public highway.
| Mrs. Bowser would have consented to
go without hats or shoes for the next
| year if she could have been safely trans
ported back home, but her only re-
source was to hang on and depend upon
Providence.
Mr. Bowser had driven two blocks
further when the horse bore to the right
and took the wheel off a banana push
cart, and then sauntered across the
street and rubbed the nose of a grocer's
horse, and got the grocer's boy so ex-
cited that he INDUCED in yells and
shouts.
Are you going to get us both killed."
exclaimed Mrs. Bowser. as she got her
hat Strengthened again.
sThere you goi" replied Mr.. Bowser,
as ne narrowly missed running GOWN an
old woman. DO you want the horse to
walk? Shall tie him to a post? new
er held the ribbons over a better goer.
and yet you are finding fault about
everything
He's either unsafe. or else you don't
know how to drive"
That's it-that's it. BY joint but
why was I fool enough to bring you
along? That horse vicious? He's like
lamb, and as far as my driving Is con-
cerned-"
He was holding the reins loosely in his
left hand and f1ourishing the whip I'll
his right, and all of a sudden the horse
sweryed and crossed the street, and ran
up on the sidewalk and stopped with his
head almost at the doors of a drug
store.
did you think of having a prescrip-
ton filled?' asked Mrs. Bowser, as she
got her breath back and found herself
still in the buggy.
Mr.. Bowser didn't reply. He had
woke up, to the fact that he was no
driver and that the old horse had ways
of his own which must eventually lead
to a smashup. He was looking pale,
and was all of a tremble as he 1eaped
out and grabbed the beast by the head,
and just then policeman came up and
said:
you'll get find SIS for driving on the
sidewalk in this way
tBut didn't drive him up hereT'
Then how did he get here?''
..'AuS e Yool 4sB7q pIo Teud9JuI aqL,
''Well you'd better take shy your
self. I was watching you as you came
down the street, and I saw that you
know nothing about driving. It's a
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