Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1914 — Riding Underneath the Horse. [ARTICLE]

Riding Underneath the Horse.

During the Russo-Japanese war an oflicer of Cossacks offered to carry a dispatch which ten horsemen had already failed to get through. The general said that the effort was useless. “The others have failed,” the officer insisted, “because they traveled on horseback. I shall go under my horse.” The general was astonished; but the officer’s offer was finally accepted. He started off in the middle of the night, strapped face downward under his horse, which he guided by means of the bridle through the forelegs. The Japanese whistled to what they! thought was a riderless borße. But the animal, egged on by blows from the officers heels, accomplished the journey of 35 miles in safety. Stranger still, officer accomplished the return journey on the following night