Putnam patriot., 1920-01-16
lN THREE ACTS
Dsckers and Runaways Make Eastfcrd Correspondent
 Feel Coltish
Pure Spring Water, Country Ssosag~, and Memorien of 8ygone Days
 S.ir the Ina sginsfion
Ea.tford. Jan. l4. 1920.


 hastfofd has long been known as catt4e ard aorse-traasng centre. Iears gea0.e Or Nelson Darling, the oi4 seninary. dispensed his equine pow defs and displayed his horse sense wonderful cures at the six-corhe
 s.sies line village inn VAS the meeesl If horse jockeys for many mile. around. Some of the older residents will recall those good old days whe grog was served freely and also when truth. az well as eyes and pocketbooks were opened as wide as a sliding doOf in making exchanges and sales. The same spirit exists today. if all reports are true To illustrate: The other l week Ellery Bartlett, our gallant con stable and all around smithy, purchsS- ed an entire outfit for some thfty dOllare (more or lessD which made him feel like thirty cents,--more if not less. As the story goes-youehei for by Frank Lyons. splendid judge on pork and beef-the seller, Harmon Fsanehe of Woodstock. proved him self yeritable David Harum. "Is the horse all right2" inquired Ellery, who noticed that the animal, not altogether sleek and fat, looked rather demure and sleepy.
 Fur as l know retorted French. he Is all right excepting that he gets some8 nat cast down now and then.
 Ellery Bartlett has put lots of life into d0wn-cast horses in his day ane at night, and guessed he could fee3 him plenty of unclipped oats and thus revive his dropping tendency.
 Next morning poor Dobbin VAS un- able to get up on his four feet until rope. derrick or some sort of hois- ing apparatus was devised.
 Gets cAst-down now and then, ehe" calculated Ellery, bearing characteristic smile, AS he punetuatc his laughter with A hyphen.
 Another incident: Charles Gebr1- Yitz, our next-door neighbor. recently bought bay gelding from former mail carrier Grenier of kenyOnville. The other day, when rain was fallins sith sleet. he gave his new nag nee4- cd exercise, and while holding the reias in ehe hand held an umbrella over the trump of the horse with the other.
 "4hat au earth are you carrying hat umh ella for" asked bystand- CT near Bow ems corner
 Well l" shouted Gebrobitz. "Mister Greenhorn told me th' 'orse was gen teei if ai3 not get rain treini Il lder his tai r'
 Once more J W Jones owns iieyy steel. which strongly objects to being le !. so in order to get the hoSse t1 the blacksmith shop and be shoi, he hitehel the acrobatic animal iata it's favorite vehicle When starting for hssHe the horse was cold in its legs if not feet. while in due time. the us ually conservative MT Jones was uu- comfortably warm, particular under the collar Lee Dodge was really ex- cited when he witnessed horse. wagon and driver striking a two-seventeen clip at the start. George Gurley. the barber, nearly cut mans throat as the turnout dashed past Darwin Lew is house and the spring. Further on the dog at the inn and the canine al 1 Welcome Davis bkrked louder than ever with fright, while those hurried | ly assembled on the postofice steps roared with delight. Further up the public highway was eycloramic com. | bination of snorting, cavorting horse breathing steam into the frosty tANhAs itiNttt bA ~ itRati, AhthkHA Ao pt Deacon Trowbridge. holding onto the ribbons for dear life and wondering whether his hat. his head or his hair would come of first For a short time it looked as though the imaginary runaway would take the circle past the Castle. the parsonage, George Griggs'. George Bowen's and other places. and create no end of trouble generally. But such was not to be, l for when the horse, even in it's raoid | flight. casually glanced at the ceiling in the Congregational chapel and the delepidated condition of the church horse-shets. he completely broke down with grief and disgust and neighed as loudly as he could to Bro. Jones Let us pray. for this is really he'll :"
 Moral: Even horse knows mis- erable horse-shed when it runs uO against one, even if he does steo over the traces occasionally when things