A SPIRITED HORSE.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 183, 22 May 1903, Page 4

A SPIRITED HORSE.

An uncommon "bolt," not without mirth provoking incident, is thus related by the Lyttelton Times : —On Tuesday an ordinary looking horse was brought to Mr McKenzie's forge to be shod. An operator picked up a foreleg, and was cow kicked on the arm. One of the horse's fore legs was then buckled up with a strap, and the animal was tethered to the wall. It broke loose, and made away up Gloucester Street on three legs "but soon recovered the free use of the fomth. Turning into Manchester street, the dangling neck strap was gripped by a passer by, who was immediately dragged into the gutter. As he picked himself up he remarked . "If I'd got my fingers on his nostrils I'd have stopped him all right." The runaway, pursued by a well known footballing blacksmith armed .with a large rasp now took the footpath, explored the Canterbury Hall steps and proceeded along the sidewalk An old man, who attempted to check the equine pedestrian's progress was kicked in the -ear, and another passerby, who rashly essa)*ed a similar task, and knocked down by a blow on the chest with a heavy fore-hoof. The horse was turned by the Clock Tower, and many casual people helped to round it into the stable yard adjoining Mr McKenzie's forge. There the spirited animal was neatly lassooed round the neck, at about a fifteen yards' range, by a boy. The horse was dragged into the forge, and had to be thrown on its back and securely bound before it could be shod.