The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-16
way?" she sarcastically asked.

way?' she sarcastically asked
Il rejoice to say that I have, my
/ dear DR.. Shields was in the office on
business this morning, and as soon
as he saw me he told me what allied
me and gave me medical advice. He
says that if follow instructions will
be a well man within two months.
There is nothing chronic, but I have
caught things just in time. Two
more weeks and it would have been
too late"
'And his advice was for you to slip
and slide and bob around on a sad
die, was it?''
.sHis advice, madam, was for me
to take little gallop every morning,
and I shall follow it to the letter.
There will be no slipping, nor sliding.
nor bobbing."
"And you got that rig today?"
eyes"
1.-THE horse will be brought here
every morning by boy. It belongs
to livery stable, of course!"
and does Doctor Shields own the
Mr. Bowser turned white and red
and glared, but had wonderful control
of himself. After a moment he quiet
| ly said:
"The programme will go off just as
l have laid it out to you, and on my
part it will go peacefully. I desire to
|
| every effort to do so.
But how do you expect to ride
horseback" she asked, but with less
aggressiveness in her tones.
| by climbing on the back of a
| horse, of course" he replied
| "But-but don't be
ever on the back of a horse in your
| life. If you don't have the gentlest
kind of horse you will be sure to
meet with some accident"
| Madam. am Mr.. Bowser,"- he
said, as he walked around and swelled
out his chest. Because I haven't
! told you about riding to hounds in
my younger days and winning four
out of five hurdle races you talk about
sliding and slipping and bobbing.
| Let us hear no more of it,"
| VERY we'll; but If an accident
does happen you must not blame me-
l am opposed to the affair."
There will be no accident and no
blaming. How do you think I look
! in this suit?
/, Mrs. Bowser gave him a word of
praise. She knew he would carry out
his programme whether or no. and
| SO she softened down as a wife should
| and hoped for the best Mr.. Bowser
| upon the matter as settled, and peace
reigned during the remainder of the
| evening. Once, when he happened to
catch sight of the cat with a grin on
| HeI lace, ne looked around for the
| axe or the crowbar, but Mrs. Bowser
turned it off by saying that the cat
had been looking at funny pictures
| In the Sunday supplements, and all
was serene again.
That night Mr.. Bowser slept to
waken at brief intervals. He also
dreamed, and in his dreams he was
q knight Of old on a cavorting steed.
Once the steed cavorted so cayortish-
ly that the knight would have fallen
out of bed had not Mrs Bowser
| seized him by the shoulder. He was
up and had special breakfast and
was at the gate to meet the boy and
| the horse. The horse came down the
street mostly on his hind legs. When
he wasn't walking on them he was
using them to kick with.
isn't he "a little fresh ?" asked
the knight as the steed was finally
brought to the curb.
"Gentlest, quietest horse in the sta
bles. sir" replied the boy. This is
the boss we let out to invalids and lit
tie girls to ride. He's just kittenish. 81
To corroborate the boy the horse
reared and squealed and then came
down to kick the wheel of a peddIer's
Awagon. OF course, a crowd collected