ADVENTURES OF A SOVEREIGN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9092, 11 March 1908, Page 2

ADVENTURES OF A SOVEREIGN.

Next to swallowing a sovereign—an unpremeditated feat which a Melbourne man performed recently —periraps a few more awk'W ai 'd- positions could be found (says the Melbourne Argus) for the coin than under the hoof of of a very large and very ill-tempered horse. A lady, with barely time to , catch the Adelaide express, let a sovereign slip from her purse in the hurry of paying her cab fare and it rolled off the pavement under a dray. The horse attached to the dray put a ponderous hoof on the coin, and then met every attempt of the bystanders to recover it by lashing at them vigorously. As the dray was hemmed in by other vehicles, and could not be readily moved, it began to look as if the lady would have to choose between losing her money and losing her train. Presently a constable was attracted to the scene, and the lady impressed his services in salvage operations. Not without considerable demur on his part, though, for he intimated that the job was not to his liking, and that it was one which belonged to the railways rather than to the Police Department. But at last he consented to act. “Gome, lift up your foot now,” he said, putting his hand gingerly on the horse’s hock. The order was obeyed with surprising suddenness. The officer sprang to the kerb with an agility, no less surprising. “When I do that again, ” he said to the onlookers, “some of yon be ready to rake it out with a stick.” After several attempts and some hairbreath escapes the coin was eventually removed from the danger zone, and restored to the grateful lady.