The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-08-17
such as a majority of the council seem
to demand. Anything to get the
armory.

10 Qemduu. Anything 10 get the
armory.
A Decrepit Horse and a Dead Auto
We would cheerfully give a couple
of simoleons for a photograph OF
Henry Avery as be stooa in the road
midway between here and Elk lake
vainly endeavoring to coax Dobbin
out of well-defned case of balks.
But to the story:
1t appears that Henry and Mrs.
Avery decided to attend the dance at
Elk Lake park last Thursday evening
and that Henry in the darkness
hitched up the wrong horse. He in
tended taking DR.. Neumann's fastest
traveller but, unfortunately, hitched
up an infrm creature that the doctor
was treating for a complication Of
diseases, among them being bony ex-
crescence, poll evil, foundered foot,
ventral hernia, malanders and in
famed parotid glands-the poor old
horse was a patient. On the way to
the lake Henry remarked that he
couldn't imagine what the dickens
had overtaken the horse-it didn't
have any life in it and couldn't be
persuaded to travel at a greater speed
than walk. Goodness" said Mrs.
Avery, II can't understand it unless
pa has driven the poor animal almost
to death today" Henry and his wife
we're nearly asleep when they reached
81. B. Pratt's place. No balkiness
was, however manifested by the horse
on the way down-it seemed to be
merely suffering from that tired feel
ing. Henry put the horse in the barn
and when he and his wife assembled
the steps of the pavilion dance mum
Der l3 was announced. Looking at
his watch Henry calculated, "By the
great horned toad, we've been three
hours on the road! but lin a whisper)
don't tell any one."
When the dancing was over they
repaired to the barn and, going to
the stall where he had left the horse,
Henry struck a match, "Well, I'll be
fingered, exclaimed he, 'either some
body's traded horses with US or else
I hitched up one of Docs patients.
Just look at that decrepit bag OF
bones" Concluding, ultimately, that
it was the same old fossil be took from
Docs hospital, he h1tched up and be
and Mrs. Avery commenced their
homeward journey.
1t was not long before they we're fast
asleep. They were suddenly awakened
an hour or two later by coming to
an abrupt stop. Dobbin had decided
to rest.
Henry jumped out of the rig, pulled
big red apple and a piece of candy
from his pocket, and endeavored to
coax Dobbin into motion. But the
horse refused to either eat or move.
Then Henry tried to persuade it By
the application of sapling, he had
no turpentine with him,-but the skate
refused to bulge. At this time be-
lated rig drove up which had room
for one more passenger. "You 20
home," said Henry to his wife, "and
ask Doc to come out with the ma
chine" Henry waited patiently for
an hour or more but Doc did not
show up. So he left Dobbin to his
fate and started to hoof it to town.
When near the village limits DR..
Neumann hove in sight and be and
Henry returned to where Dobbin had
been left. The horse was still there
and as obstinate as ever. "Get into
the rig, Henry" said Doc, land hold
the lines tight: Pm going to ad-
minister dose of activity" And a
couple of seconds after the activity''
was injected into Dobbin the old skate
started down the road with tightening
like rapidly, merely touching the
high spots as it sped along.
Otuer TROUBLES mere commenced.
Doc couldn't get his machine to 90
and Henry miles away. The horse
went home all right, but Henry
wondered what had become of Doc
he feared an accident had happened.
SO he called up Mark Stroeter and he
and Mr.. Stroeter proceeded in an
auto to the doctors assistance.
When they arrived they found him,
lying on his back in the mud under
the machine, tinkering with it's mech
anism. The machine was hitched
up behind Mr.. Stroeter's and home
was reached without further accident.
Alps we'll that ends we'll.