Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — Pnzzied Over the Horse. [ARTICLE]

Pnzzied Over the Horse.

Sandy McFadyen, a Forfarshire farmer. had been spending an hour or two in the evening with a friend a couple of miles away. It was a moonlight night and Sandy, after partaking freely of his friend’s hospitality, was riding quietly home across the sheep pastures on his ”guld auld mare,” when they came to an open ditch which the mare refused to cross. “Hoot, awu’, Maggie,” said the rider, “this Mnna dae. Ye maun juist gang ower.” He turned back about a hundred yards, wheeled round and gave the mare a touch of his whip. On she went at a brisker canter, but just as they reached the edge of the ditch she stopped dead, and shot Sandy clean over to the other side. Gathering himself up, Sandy looked his mare straight in the face and said: “Vera weel pitched, Indeed, ma lass. But hoo are ye gaeiu’ to get ower yersel’, eh?”—Pittsburg Dispatch.