AN AMUSING MISTAKE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2791, 17 May 1911, Page 3

AN AMUSING MISTAKE.

An amusing story is told by the Wairarapa Age. A party of three—a lady and two gentlemen—hired a conveyance in Masterton on Easter Monday, and drove out to the Kopuaranga sports gathering. On arrival—the journey took them an hour, more or less —they unharnessed the horse and tied it up with a number of others. Late in the afternoon they proceeded to harness the horse. They did not know very much about harnessing, but they eventually got the animal hitched up. But when they tried to drive away trouble commenced. The horse bucked and jibbed, and seemed very ill at ease, and, after a lengthy struggle, the lady of the party was sent off to the railway station, to return home by train. After a three hours' fight with the horse,

which proved a most capricious, unsteady brute, the travellers arrived back at the livery stables, hot, tired, dusty and " fighting mad," They vented the ir just wrath upon the stable-keeper. " That's all right," he said, " but that's not my horse!" The travellers had taken the wrong horse ; the horse which had brought them back (in three hours!) was a saddle horse that had never been in harness before.