THE MYSTERIOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1550, 10 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE MYSTERIOUS.

Hx fg a man with a light beaver overcoat on.» He drives a white horae and a top buggy, and all of a sudden he atops in the middle o! the street and looks fixedly at his horse. In two minutes fifty people line the kerbstone. "What's the matter?" " Balky." A man steps out to seize the bridle ana start the horse, but the driver shakes hia head and motions him away. •" I'll bet he's 'an. ugly brute." "Of course he is. Look at that wicked eye of his I" % . The crowd has now been increased [by fifty, and several vehioles have stopped. "Anybody hurtf' "Noj balky ho%eV' . „ "Why doesn't someone whisper lin his ear?" Four men stepped out to give advice, % but they are hastily motioned back, and a livery stable-man in the crowd observes : "It that horse doesn't kill two or three mciv here I shall be much mistaken." Three minutes more and the crowd numbers 20&. The man with the grey home looks up and down the street, braoaa his feet, and takes a firm grip on the lines, and softly says: "Come Peter P" And Peter drops his head, dangles hifl ears, and moves off as slowly and softly as a river of grease. "What was it P" owls a man who has run four blocks and is puffing like a whale. But there is no one to answer him. The orowd has dissolved like a handful of sugar in a barrel of water. It is very mysterious* and the orowd doesn't enjoy the olimaz at alL— Detroit Fne Irut.