Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — The Horse Blew First. [ARTICLE]

The Horse Blew First.

There is a time for everything, and the secret of success in life lies in doing th ngs at just the right minute. A veterinary surgeon had occasion to instruct a colored stableman how to administer medicine to an ailing horse. He was to get a common tin tube—a bean-blower—-put a dose of medicine into it, insert one end of the tube into the horse’s mouth, and blow vigorously into the other end. and so force the medicine down the horse’s throat. Half an hour afterward the colored man appeared at the surgeon’s office, looking very much out of sorts. 1 “What is the matter?” inqmired the doctor, with some concern. “ Why, boss, dat hoss he—he feJe-w fust!”