The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-03
TROTlIIING AND
PACING RACE
Cy Hoskins Has q Exciting Expert
sHGs While on His Way to the
Co. Seat Not Injured but
Nearly Scared to Dath

Cy Hoskins, our estinable townsra1
and one Of our most respeckted cIti-
Zens. had a exciting experience last
Thursday, which he says Re VIII not
repeat again even BIZ request
g and his wife thort that they would
take a trip 10 the Co. Seat n the pUng
70 do some shopping (Hen Neathersby,
prop. O. our General Store, SAYS that Cy
and his wife OFT 70 be ashamed Of
themselves not to patronize home tTade).
c. desired 10 make as good a show
a possible, so he hitched up TO the pung
his trotting horse Jim and his pacing
mare jimmy In the past Cy has entered
Jim IN the trOttlng races At the BIng-
vile Fairs and he has went a mile as
fast as 4 r1i-its and half. jimmy can't
pace that fast but PAGES IS fast as she
can. Cy amt never druv these two
speeders together, but th0rt he would
do so on this occaShion, Just for the
sake OF variety.
Well. he had a hard tine getting the
two 70 stand still till Mrs. HOskins
could get In the pung. FIX the fur robe
around her and get her feet on the lot
soap stone which she had het Up 10
keep them warm with Il was a cold
crisp morning and the horses we're slct-
tish and tul Of ginger, but finally Cy
and Nara got fixed, ard then they went
towards the Co. Seat making the snow
/ fly ike everything
When they got half way down Ticks
Hill, Jim he struck his trotting stride
and tried 10 keep his nose ahead OF
/ Jinnys- This seemed to kind Of wake
/ up jimmy TO a sense Of her II :
bilities as a PAGER, and taking the BIT
I IN her teeth as much as 20 say she'd be
Z doQQoned If she'd let any trOtter beat
! her pacing. she started in to get ahead
] OF Jim. Coming so fast through the
wind had nearly froze Cy'S face often
! him, and he said his hands was 50
cold pullin' on the reins he oculdn
/ scarcely hold them IN his fingers. p Cy
I pressed his feet against the front Of the
( pung and pulled and hawled and sawed
I on the reins n d effort to stop jim and
1 jimmy. but he said he might as well Of
/ pulled against a locomotive. By this
time jimmy had Overtuk jim and they
/ was going neck and neck, then 70 make
matters worse. Jim had broke into a run
/ IN ord - ahead Of jimmy. which
seemed 10 rile I'D the little mare, who
I went often her feet and also broke Inp
a lope Cy said he never seen two
horses run so fast n ali his life =.
( this time Maria had also laid holt on
T the lines herself. and her ard Cy was
pulling for dear life to stop the horses.
At the bottom Of the hill jim got 50
far ahead Of Jimmy that he skewed the
pung around sideways and crowded the
little mare into the deep STOW along
side the road. As soon as one runner
went I'D or the snowbank, over went
the pung. bottom side up, and out went
I Cy and Maria into a conglomerated
/ heap Cy helt onto the rejns ard man
aged to stop the horses As for Mrs
I Ho'sins. she was 4 good deal shook I'd
and give Cy a turriblc laying out foI
taking her out III the pung and riskine
her life and limb behind two sch TN
ruly beasts as them. Cy tried TO cOaN
her TO 60 on to the County Seat, but
she wouldn't do II, she wouldn't ever
ride back homo. but walked every Ster
OF the way back 10 Bingville maddel
than a wet hen. while c. druv the hor.
ses back IN a slow walk and put then
into the stable, postponing his trip Il
j the Co. Seat to a more propitious sea
knn, Cv says II viii be 3 colder dal