SUSSEX MUD.
Few people have any idea of the dangers of Sobbpx travel m bygone days. Listen to the following story, which used to be current In the country : A man walking along the road between Barwaeb and Ticeburijt, wai earpristd to see a bat In the middle of the track. Ac he paseed he gave it a kick, end to his amazement *r»s greeted with a faint '* Holloa " 0f immediately stopped, and enter the hat, to his itill greater astonishment, he found a man's head. He esked at once what was the matter, and the reply was — " I am on horseback, and n>y horse has sunk m the mud, for mercy sake help mo out ! lorn oinklng deeper every minute." Men were collided, tnd the horse and hie rider w*re dug out. The horap, to the intense uirprieo of all present, came up with liis mouth fall of hay, which, on further soaroh, was found to have been taken from a losd thot had sunk with » waggon and; four horses before the mat) got ,there.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1578, 7 June 1887, Page 3
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176SUSSEX MUD. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1578, 7 June 1887, Page 3
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