The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-11-03
Awful Fall.
Jake Peters Met With One That Most
Broke HIS Neck & us Wonder
It DIDN'T

Jake Peters nearly broke his neck last
Tuesday and nobody blames him under
the circumstances. The circumstances
surrounding the case are quite singular
and We relate them as follows as We got
them from Jake hisself who is now able
10 be propped UP in bed and receive call
ers although he is quite stir in the jints
and VIII not be able to get around on
clutches for some time yet
As everybody knows Jake owns a old
gray mare which he calls Cesar. He
swopped for her with AMI Gooklns
about three years ago and has regretted
il ever since. Cesar IS a able bodied
mare but Jake caIkilates she Is the slow
est traveller under certain circumstances
that ever walked in the road. She's aw-
full sly, Cesar Is. You just hitch her
up TO the Vaughn and start out some
where with her. and as long as you don't
meet anybody and don't pass through no
town she'll jog along Jest as spry as any
her see anybody coming in team or
afoot from the other direckshion and
she'll begin 70 slow down to a crawl and
If you happen to say "Howdy dooT to
the other party as you pass she'll stop
stock still and then the other party will
laugh and smoker at YOU. Same way
when she goes through a village any
where. When she's goin through q town
she don't seem to be hardly able 10 lift
enc foot and set II down before tother
one. Jake said he drfv her through
Hardscrabble about month ago and she
went so slow there was times he couldn't
for the life OF him tell whether he was
movin or not He says his fingers Jest
itched TO lam her with the whip. but he
didn't Ike 10 do It right In town being
as the folks would think he was trying
to show OF and like as not a rest him for
cruelty 10 animals, so all he could do
was jest to set there on the wagon seat
and SWEET and stew until she got out OF
town and then he stopped and got out
| and cut q birch sapling and tried TO
Kill her. Jake says that when he was
going through Hardscrabble that time
that people would holler and ask him.
What's your hurry. Jake?" and Fast
mare you got there, Jake!" and things
Ike that until he was so ashamed Of
hisself that he didn't know what to DO.
It nacherly makes a teller feel foolish
to ride behint a horse Ike that Cesar
knows jest as well as anybody that
Jake won't lam her going through
town but when nobody amt fl sight
then she trots right along as brisk as can
be.
Well. finally Jake got tired Of having
her stop stock still in the road whenever
he passed anybody and said "Howdy
dor so he made up his mind he'd cure
her + it, so last Monday he hitched her
UP to the light spring wagon, but before
he started out he cut a long pole outen
hornbeam wood and laid it acrost his
knees, then he druv out no the country a
ways where there wasn't nobody IN sight
Then he took the pole in one hand unbe-
knownst to Cesar and said out real loud.
''Howdy do!' Cec-r started to stop b. t
before she could succeed in doing so Jake
laid that pole onto her from her rump
TO her ears, and it scairt her so bad that
she liken to jumped outen the harness
and tried TO run of. Soon as Jake got her
quieted down he said, ''Howdy do" again
then he'd lift her, and before he brought
her back home al! lathered up he had her
an that when had cav o'ITou-d,- do 80
Cesar would jump and run as II she was
shot Jake figured that ne had her cured
for good
Well, on Tuesday Jake hitched up Cesar