Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Yesterday seemed a gala day for horseflesh-runaways innumerable were witnessed, and even a pair of rough stumpy mules felt the mania and started off at full gallop; but becoming convinced of the impropriety of the movement they held up after running a few rods. Two “bloods” from a neighboring county, desirous to display the gait and action of a pair of fine roans, drove them around the square at the top of their speed, to the danger of men, women and children. Their sport, however, was soon ended, by the marshal’s laying violent hands upon them and introducing them before Justice Adams, who kindly relieved them of some superfluous cash, to the benefit of the city treasury’ and sent them off determined never again to make a race track of our streets.