THE SLOWEST HORSE.
The story of a man who, having hired a horse to attend a funeral, and was cautioned against overdriving, said he would keep up with the procession if he killed the horse, is retold in a different shape of an Illinois candidate for nomination to office. Wishing lo reach the convention at a distant town he hired a horse at a livery stable. In spite of the candidate’s pounding and swearing, the animal was so slow that the man did not get there until after the convention had adjourned, and so lie lost his nomination. Ho denounced the owner for giving him such a beast. The proprietor of the stable on investigation, discovered that the ostler had let him have one of the hearse horses. “ Hearse horse ? hearse horse?”cried the bailled politician, Why, if a man should start to a funeral with such a horse as that he would not reach the grave till two weeks after the insurrection.”
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Patea Mail, 23 April 1881, Page 4
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162THE SLOWEST HORSE. Patea Mail, 23 April 1881, Page 4
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