Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The police at the foot of Hammond street, New York city, recently rescued a horse from the water, concerning which there is a remarkable history. Nobody at first knew anything of the animal or its owner, but the next day a claimant appeared who stated that he was the owner, and that the horse had reached the city by swimming the entire distance from Fishkill-forty-three miles distant up the Hudson River. The owner had frightened the horse somehow and chased him to the river, where he boldly plunged in and started for the opposite shore. The man followed in a boat, when the horse turned his head down stream and kept on until the owner, tired out, returned to the shore. Then he sought to follow him in a wagon, and left it for the train, as he heard constantly of his horse swimming on. At length he gave up the chase, and came to this city to hear that the animal had been taken ashore by the police as stated.