Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Boston, May 5, 1735. Last week at Captain Welle’s Farm a large Gelding of his grazing near to a Well of 22 Foot deep by the side of a fence, fell over backwards and dropped to the bottom. One of his servants soon after coming up to the farm came to the relief of a hog intangled therein with his yoke, heard a groaning noise in the Well. Looking down in the well he perceived the head of the horse a small matter above water; the Servant in a great surprize and with dispatch collected a number of hands in the neighborhood, and with a rope fallen to the horse, the first pull he sprang up about 8 foot. After he was hauled out the horse got upon his legs and ran away frighted. It’s almost incredible that the Well was stoned round, the horse receiv’d no Damage saving the skin being rubbed off of him in a few places.