Year: 1873

that IT the auctioneers brother funeral took
place while WAS in the territory, | would
postpone all other recreations and attend it.
Alter ga'lop of sixteen miles, the Cali
fornan youth and Genuine Mexican Plug
came tearing into town again, shedding foam.
flakes like spume spray thai drives before
a typhoon, and with one final skip over a
whee-barrow and a Chinaman, cast anchor
in front of the "ranch."


Such painting and blowing! Such spread.
ing and contracting of the equine nostris ,anC
glaring of the wild equine eye! But was ih,
imperial beast subjusated Indeed he wa,
not. His lordslip, the Speaker of the House
thought he was, and mounted him to q,
down to the capitol but the first dash the
creature made was over pile of telegraph
poles half as high as a church; and his time
to the capiol--one mile and three-quarters-
remains unbeaten to this day. But then he
took an advantage-he left ont the mile and
only did the three quarters. That is to say
Ie made strai2 2ht cat across lots, preterrng
fences and bitches to a crooked road and
when the Speaker got to the capitol he said
he had been in the air so much he felt as il





In the evening the Speaker came home
aiool for exercise, and got the Genuine towed
back behind IA quartz wagon. The next day
| loaned the animal to the Clerk of the House
to 20 down to the Dana mine, six miles, and
he walked back for exercise, and got the
horse towed. Everybody loaned him to
always walked; they never could get
enough exercise any other way. Sull,
continued to loan him to anybody who
was willing to borrow HIM, my idea be-
ing to get him crippled, and throw him on
the borrowers hand, or killed, and make
the borrower pay for him. But somehow
nothing ever happened to him. He took
chances that no other horse ever took and
! survived, but he always came out safe. 1t
was his daily habit to try experiments that
had always been cons dered impossible, but
he always got through. Sometime he mis-
calculated little, and did ot get his rider
through intact, but he always got through
himself. OF course had tried TO sell him
but that was IA stretch of simplicity whcI,
met with llltle symp thy. The auctioneer
stormcd up and down The streets on him for
fom days, dispensing the popuace, inter
ruptng business, and destroying children,
aud never got II hid-at least never any bur
the eighteen dollar one he hired IA VIGOROUSLY
subsiancelcss hummer to make The people
only SIN led pleasantly, and restrained their
desire to buy, if they had any. Then the
'nciioneer brought il his biIl, and with
drew The horse fom the market. We tried
to trade him off at private vendue next, Of
tering him at n sacrifice for second hand
tombstones, old iron, Temperance lracts-any
kind of property. But holders were stiff
and we retired from the market again.
never tried to ride the horse any more
Walking was good enough exercise for IA
man like me, that had nothing the matter
with him except Gruptures, internal injuries
and such things. Finally tried to gipe
him away. But it was a failure. Parties
said earthquakes were handy enough on the
Pacific coast-they did not wish to own one
As last resort offered him to the Gov
ernor for the use of the Brigade" His
face lit up eagerly at first, but toned down
again, and he said the thing would he too
p,lpable.


just then the lvery-stable man brought
in his bill for six weeks eepng-stall-roo
Tor the horse. fifteen dollars; hay for the
horse, two hundred and fifty! The Genuine
NJ xican Plug had eaten a ton of the article,
and the man said he would have eaten
hundred if he had let him.


! managed to pay the livery bill, and that
same day gave the Genuine Mexican Plug
to passing Arkansas emigrant whom for
tune delivered into my hand. If this ever
meets his eye, he will doubtless remember
the donation.