Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — A Wonderful Horse. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Horse.

There is a perceptible coolness between young Seabury, one of the most fashionable young men in Austin, and Gillhooly. Seabury owns a horse which he thinks is the finest in the world. Young Seabury was bragging about his horse to a crowd of acquaintances, and he said, among other improbable . things, that the horse went so fast on the previous day that he overtook a swallow, the horse’s ear striking the bird. “Are you sure the swallow was not coming from the opposite direction?” asked Gillhooly, with the air of a man who wanted to know. “Of course not,” was the indignant response. “I reckon then that the swallow wanted to build her nest in your horse’s ear. The horse went so slow that the swallow could not see that he was moving. Wonderful boss.”— Texas Siftings. _