Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — WOMAN LASSOED THE HORSE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN LASSOED THE HORSE

Baltimore Housewife Will Hold Him Till Bhe la Paid for Butter . . He Ate.

Baltimore, Md. —The cowpunchers of the wild woolly west “have nothing on” Mrs. Majy Boyle of Patterson avenue when it comeß to .the nimble art of throwing a lariat. Mrs. Boyle had spent a busy morning in her kitchen. Finding that she had over four pounds of fresh dairy butter left over she placed it on a platter In the yard to solidify, the heat of the kitchen having reduced its consistency. Half an hour later Mrs. Boyle went into the yard to get the butter, but, like Old Mother Hubbard in the nursery legend, “when she got there the platter was bare.” In place of the butter, however, was a large dapple gray horse, whoeg color scheme and design suggested the now almost extinct rocking equine without which no children’s nursery was at one time complete. The noble steed was engaged in polishing the platter. But when he chanced to look up and saw Mrs. Boyle the equine hobo gave a succession of loud and penetrating neighs and turned tail. “Not so fast!” quoth Mrs. Boyle. A moment later a Jhsso improvised from the domestic clothesline encircled the neck of the dappled steed, causing him to rear on his haunches. The unwilling captive is being held as hostage by Mrs. Boyle, who declares that she will not turn the animal over to its owner until she receives remuneration for her stolen butter.