Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — A Lively Horse. [ARTICLE]

A Lively Horse.

Arthur Simmons has a Texas pony on his farm at Chokee whose ability as a jumper cannot be surpassed. He is a •diminutive specimen of that breed of horseflesh, aud a day or two ago was put into a big box or crate for shipment to Americas, there being no stock cat convenient at the time. The pony and box were placed upon a box oar and the train pulled out. The little sample of Texas cyclone soon got tired of his close quarters, and while the train was running at a speed of thirty miles an hour, kicked the box into a cocked hat, and m»de a leap for liberty. He struck terra firma right side up with care, and when the train men came back to vie w his cold remains the t-aid remains were quietly nibbling at a keg of iron spikes on the side of tfie road, and it took four men aod a boy an hour to run down and'Capture him. At least, that is what the conduefcor said. —Amtricus (Qa ) Times.