A HORSE IN A FIX.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1125, 14 December 1883, Page 3

A HORSE IN A FIX.

A resident in an up-country town in South Australia not long since thought ho heard a thunderstorm during the night, and was quite sure he heard loud and prolonged peals of thunder. On getting up in the morning he was rather surprised to find that it was fine and dear overhead, and there was not the least appearance of a storm having passed over. Shortly afterwards he bad occasion to go to bis tank for some water, when to his astonishment it had disappeared from its accustomed place. A rather irregular track, marked deeply into the ground, led from where the tank bad stood, as if tbo tank (a 200-gallon one), which was nearly half full of water when bo last saw it, had been dragged away by somebody. Tins track or trail he followed for a hundred yards or so, when he espied the lank a little way off, a neighbor’s horse, bathed in sweat, standing alongside, with his head fairly* jammed in the round hole on top of the tank, where

be bad inserted it in search of a drink. In trjdng to withdraw it, the bole being small,he found himself firmly fixed. In his struggles to free himself he had drawn the tank to where it was found, and where he was also found exhausted with exer-

tion and fright, when he was with considerable difficulty liberated. It was the rumbling and bumping of the tank which its owner had mistaken for thunder.