Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — A Queer Rig. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Rig.

Mr. Dennett, of Cape Elizabeth, Me., who supplies the cottagers with milk, eggs, and garden truck, has a rig that attracts a good deal of attention. It consists of a 2-year-old bull, with a ring in his nose, bearing a crooked yoke on his neck, harnessed to a flat-bottomed cart, which will float in the water. The animal is driven by Mr. Dennett like a horse. Reins of rope are attached to the .ring in the bull’s nose. They pass up over the horns through rings attached to them. With this queer team Mr. Dennett makes the trip to the' beach two or three times a week, fording the Sperwink River at high 'tide. The bull swims the river like , a dog aud the cart floats like a boat and will sustain the weight of Mr. Dennett and his load of produce safely. When Mr. Dennett and his unique team are seen approaching the cottagers throng the banks of the river tin order to see him make the passage.