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Show AN INGENIOUS FARMER.-There is nothing like having presence of mind. A farmer near Mount Brydges, Ontario, was drawing a load of logs across the Great Western railway track when the sleigh stuck on the rails. Now, when a loaded, iron-shod sleigh gets stuck on a railroad track it is no slight job to take it off, and the farmer's horses proved unequal to the task. As the Atlantic express was in sight, some people might have lost their presence of mind. Not so the farmer. He quietly unhitched his horses and removed himself and them to a safe distance. He did not signal the engineer, as some foolish people would have done, but waited with great faith in the power of the engine to do what his horses were unable to accomplish. To the credit of steam be it said that he was not disappointed. Not only was the sleigh removed from the track, but the engine also. As was previously remarked, there is nothing like having presence of mind. |