Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A Correspondent of the Erie [Pa.]
Dispatch writer. “Yesterday a horse, mounted by a young man, was seen to slip on the frosted street, stagger, and fall, throwing the rider to the ground. Before two seconds had elapsed the horse was up on his feet again, and the rider hanging by one foot, which was fastened in the stirrup. The horse, though frightened, discovered the uncomfortable position of his rider, and after one or two steps to one side, as though not to trample the man, came to a dead halt; and stood as a statute until a man, passing on the sidewalk, approached and pulled the discomfited rider’s foot clear from the stirrup. I was delighted to find the man entirely unharmed, but found, that the stirrups were both wraped with carpet, evidently to keep the rider’s feet warm, or with a desire on his part to have his brains dragged out on some occasion like the present. The incident is more remarkable from the fact that the horse is one of fine blood, imported to Erie for a trotter, and, costing some thousands of dollars.”