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Show WESTWARD HO ON HORSE AND BUCKBOARD, Believing that ther miubt find new and hitherto unknown pleasnres In the land of the golden sunset and tbnt they might reach that glorious land on the back of an old horse they had taken from a pasture at Crescent, a few miles north of Lehl, two juvenile wards from the Halt Lake detention home, had a real experience in passing through Utah county Tuesday, according to Eric By-lund, By-lund, probation officer for this district. The, youthful adventurers, whose ages were given as 12 and 14, had not ridden their conveyor con-veyor far when they concluded that a more comfortable means of travel would lie In a buggy. Accordingly they found Just the thing In Lehl a buckboard up- . on which they could carry a good supply of food for their beast of burden. Tuesday morning they arrived In Provo and while taking In some of the more attractive . points of interest here they met with a terrible mishap when their steed became fractious while coming down the grade from the state mental hospital nnd in some unaccountable way reared over backwards and "fainted," the boys said, right in their laps. ; In pulling this stunt the horse bad broken the shafts of t(ie vehicle nnd they were obliged to abandon it and again mount the unlmnl for the remainder re-mainder of the journey. When they had reached a point near -the Columbia steel plant they again grew weary and made an effort to sell the. beast. Not being successful they dlsmount- ed and turned him Into a . pnstnre. In the meanwhile they ' had seen some boys on bicycles and bad conf uded' hat they could reach California quicker and had concluded that they could only find a wheel. At Springville they picked up one bicycle and the lnrger of the two pedaled his companion Into Spanish Fork. Here they picked up another wheel and made splendid time over the smoothly paved roads Into Payson. At this point, however, how-ever, Officer Bylund had overtaken over-taken them and they were returned re-turned to Provo, "where today they are waiting In the Juvenile ward of the county jail for officers of-ficers of the Salt Lake juvenile court to accompany them to their home town. |