Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — Saved the Queen. [ARTICLE]

Saved the Queen.

Touching the famous equestrian, Andrew Duorow, so long the lessto of Astley’s and who was the original courier of St Petersburg, who rode six bare-backed horses at onco, there is a curious story, for tho authenticity of which I cannot vouch, but whioh I toll as it was told to mo more than fifty years ago. Dtiorow, so runs tho tale, was riding in Hyde Park one morning at tho sarno time us tho youthful Queen Victoria, about two months before her coronation, was taking oquostrian exercise. The Queen's horse bolted, and the equerries and grooms failed to stop the terrified animal. Duorow leaped from his saddle, seized the horse’s bridle, at the same time patting the horse's nock and talking to it in thut peculiar soothing tone of his which gave him an almost magical mastery over the brute creation. Tho horse remained quite quiot, but trembled violently, while her Majesty was assisted to alight, and was convoyed in a oarriage to Buckingham Palace. Andrew Duorow’s only remark when he was informed thut the lady whom ho had assisted in her distress was the Queen of England, was simply: “Lawks amussymo! Why didn’t nor blessed Majesty come to mo for her ’ossos?” But eight weeks aftorward he was as much astonished as delighted to receive from Buckingham Palace a splendid breastpin representing him as a miniature corn ier of St. Petersburg, in gold, brilliants and rubies, while simultaneously, from the Lord Chamberlain’s office, there arrived two tickets for Westminster Abbey for Mr. and Mrs. Ducrow to witness the pageant of the coronation.—Saia’s Journal.