ANCHORING A HORSE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3321, 14 August 1879, Page 2

ANCHORING A HORSE.

A story is told of an .old maxist^who keeps a little hotel down Here, writes* , correspondent from Coney Island. New York seaside resort. His wife Wjaf,T«ry anxious to hare a horse, an animal in which the old gentleman took bat little interest, and the old lady finally worker point, and got her horse. The steed was of an erratic and playfnl disposition, and used, on the least,provocation,; to.?tamr madly along the beach, and sufflleded . in "spilling" the old lady (several times. At last the captain, w^o hid nerer driven the beast, volunteered to • , break him of his vicious habit; so, getting another old salt to aid him, he procured a kedge anchor with a stout line attached. Fastening the end of the .line around the axle, and putting the anchor • into tb*» phaeton, the fiery untamed was hitched: : up, and the two gentlemen started for a drive along the shore. Soon the Ticions animal espied something which fttw him an excuse to run away, and immediately dashed off with Frightful vivacity. The captain dropped the reins and summoned all hands to " let go the anchor." The anchor was let go, and caught firmly in th» sand. The unsut*. pecting quadruped pranced joyously along until he got to the end of the* rope* and then he paused—paused so suddenly that the phaeton was demolished, and the 1 two old gentlemen shot up into the tat A like a couple of sky-rockets, coming down in a fearfully dilapidated condition. r ,..The horse is now for sale. , ' .. . i X .