A BIT SHORT WINDED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 January 1890, Page 2

A BIT SHORT WINDED.

Oftim the silence of the nigh' sounds not easily accounted foe, are heard/ Our experience allows Us to say that also by day sounds may break the surrounding quiet, produced by the most unexpected oh. j ects. Last -week the town witnessed what turned out to be, a comical scene, the day was hot, the air still, and in one of the allotments a horse attached to- a dray was taking his noon day feed, the driver taking h.i» reJt by laying along the vehicle upside down. Close by, a building is occupied by a carpenter's shop, so that the disturbance of the surrounding serenity, by Bounds, was not, sur? prising. Waiting a while, the aston* ishing regulairty of the >| Sough " of the plane appeared peculiar, there, being ,rio intermission to allow of a chaiigt of pesitipn on the par of the worker,! we looked in to see what work was being performed. N«t a single person was there, yet whilst in the shop, the same "sough" " sough " continued, bo that we became onvinoed that the driver was.' taking 1 ' his pigs to market " in a most determined manner. " Poor fellow/ wo thought, some - Dunedia ale, and tin sun has bothered you, but if you give such terrible snots, you will either arouse the town,, or shako your head off." The jerks were something dreadful, but having been joined by. another interested inhabitant we canvassed jkhe advisability of waking the, gentleman up As one is never lure how such an aot will be taken, it always advisable to proceed with caution, but noticing the legs playing a sort devil's tattoo accompanied by a more than ordinary jmort, . we succeeded in ourfcompani^njto approach thw dray. Before he got too close he enquired in energetic 'Wes " WfiatV vp 1 F 1 which was wholly "unnecessary as address^ to .'the man, as only the horse and dray was up, whilst he was down Our friend in the dray was not asleep, <ov sleepy, and in response to the more intelligible enquiring as to where the noise was coming from, gently turned him^lf round, and said, " it was only the horse, he was a bit short winded." Use is second nature, therefore it

can "be safeiy M& that that diTverhad been attached to that horse feemany years, otherwise^ he 1 wouldi never have described his complaint as a "bit " of anyfibing, it was thewhole lot, entire, complete, we> wonder what the horse would say ta such a Ijbel?. .There is afortuaain that animal if he ooxOd be depended upon always to shake it put in the fahsion he did, the day we heard him.