Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Hard at the Bottom. [ARTICLE]

Hard at the Bottom.

Mrs. Power O’Donoghue, in her “Ladies on Horseback,” quotes a letter which appeared in a certain journal, containing the following remark about her: “There are few men in Ireland—if one—worth being called such who would not willingly lay down their own lives rather than imperil the safety of one so universally beloved.” Whatever the men would do, a boy in Ireland imperilled her safety with less hesitation. The hounds ran over a bog, and he called out to her to “go on” as it was “hard at the bottom. ” She had not gone far when her horse “got stuck.” As her “struggling steed was momentarily sinking lower,” she shouted to the boy in tones of bitter remonstrance: “You told me this was hard at the bottom. ” “So it is; but you’re not half way to the bottom yet,” replied the boy.