Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — SAVED BY A HORSE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAVED BY A HORSE.

A BemarkEble Example of Equine InteUl(fence. James B. Dill, a New York lawyer, has a little girl about 12 years old who owes her life to the affection and Intelligence of one of Mr. Dill’s horses. Mr. Dill has a very tine stable of hufitcrs at his home at Orange

and although he does not hunt himself he loves to ride across country and is out every pleasant morning. He is often accompanigl by his daughter. One day recently Mr. Dill went out to ride alone and whqn he returned to the stable his little daughter came toward the stable to greet him. Mr. Dill was standing inside the stable door, talking with the groom and had the bridle of Jack, the bay horse he had just been riding, in his hand. Suddenly he heard a scream. Jack heard it, to. Before his master had time to turn around the horse had jerked the bridle away and was running across the stable yard. Mr. Dill followed and what he, saw was calculated to make him follow pretty rapidly. His little daughter was being attacked by a dog, a big, ugly, yellow cur, that did not belong around the place. Its teeth were tearing her dress and she was vainly struggling to free herself. Jack must have had an'appreciation of her danger. Running until he had reached the little girl and the dog he reared up on his hind legs and brought his forefeet down with crushing force on the vicious cur. The dog released its hold on the child’s clothing and fell; but Jack had not finished his work. Turning just as the dog was about to rise again he let fly his hind legs and gave the cur a kick that landed it in a heap against a stone fence full ten feet away. Then Jack’s work was done —the dog was dead and his friendls life was saved.

SAVED BY THE HORSE.