"How's this for High."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3366, 21 November 1889, Page 2

"How's this for High."

An Experience in the Bush

Some people are always in luck. We know a man who never could go wrong, at least so lie fancies. He has just lias had an experience which will probably teach him otherwise. Some time ago he bought a aheap horse at a poundkeeper's sale. It only cost about five bob, and seemed" a regular bargain. But little did lie dream the frightful trouble that nag would be before he finally got rid of him. For a week or two after he got him he worked well, and his owner was delighted. He even went so far as to give him a double supply ofoats, which the old steed took without a murmur. Suddenly high living took effect, and without tho slightest warning this hitherto mildtempered animal one morning showed his mettle by landing a small boy over two or three fences with his hind feet. From this time he hecame perfectly unmanageably and to the joy of tho man who was employed to work him, was discovered one day bogged in a ditch. The man left him there for a day or two and then informed his boss, who, seeing that the horse was nearly dead, ordered him to be shot. This was done, and then it occurred to him that ho could not leave tho thing there, so nine or ten navvies were employed to dig it out. The old brute was at last landed on terra firma, and in duo course carted to a convenient place and buried. But was this the last of him ? Oh, dear, no. Trouble was just commencing. About three weeks had elapsed when our friend, to his horror, received a notico from the corporation to immediately exhume' the creature, as it was buried' on the edge of the town belt, and if not shifted in so many days the penalties were to bo great and awful. Some elderly daino with a long nose, had spotted the funeral, (and although the grave was deep) she had sniffed around till she thought she detected tho odour of decomposing gee-gee, and had laid an information in consequence. There was no help for it, so getting together half a dozen sturdy toilers, (whom he had engaged at an awfully high figure) he proceeded with the resurrection. Things went merrily until one of the men giving a dig with his pick, stuck it right through the old mokes ribs. The flavor of unpreserved beef thereupon rose so thick that they one and all fled dismayed. The late owner sat on the edge of the grave and rent Ins garments, aud precious near went insane with ra«e. After inhaling the perfume for an lpy qv sq, he thought lie had better make a move,' so accordingly gave chase to his runaway workmen. He found them in a pub, and after vainly threatening and entreating them to return, finally persuaded them, at another pound a piece and unlimited grog to resume operations. It was a ghastly job, but at last the dreadful beast was safely |>pttlefl up in cement casks, and carted away to a distant spot. And now our' friend starts in ins chair at every knock, thinking it is a messenger about that horse, and at night wild visions haunt him, of an aged piebald steed, stamping with iron-heels' upon' his' ciiestj'and on its neck is hung a placard with the words \ih bargain. Only if bqt]," while tb.e air seems ladfjn wjt|i deljcato perfumes. He is thinking seriously of quitting the county,