Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Capt. Edwards, of the fishing smack Amelia, reports that when off “Skunnett,” on the Rhode Island shore, he discovered an object swimming off his bow, which he finally made out to be a horse. He made sail, but could not overhaul the animal, which was making desperate struggles to reach the mainland three miles away. At times it would disappear from sight in the waves which broke over him,-the sea was running very high at the time,-but a moment later would reappear, and, with a loud snort and toss of the head, would shake off the water from his ears and eyes, and then renew his struggle. At last he made the shore, and without pausing a moment, dashed up the beach, his long tail and curling mane floating outward on the wind. The splendid animal was possessed of immense strength, else he could not have swam that long distance through such a sea. Where he came from nobody knows. No vessel was in sight from which he could have escaped.