Show STARTED TOO QUICK A Kansas City Swells Buggy Ride With His Best Girl She was a shapely chestnut mare from Kentucy and the patrician blood of a long line of Blue Grass ancestors ances-tors gurgled through her swelling veins When she paused before the ladies entrance of the Coates House the other afternoon she was hooked to a new buggy that had just been turned out of the shop In that buggy was a pinkcheeked youngishlooking man with a yellow flower in his button hole He got out of the vehicle and fastened one end of the stout hitching strap to an iron post The other end of the I strap engirdled the arching neck of the proud Kentucky mare The pinkcheeked man went into the hotel There was a lonely interval of ten minutes and then the pinkcheeked man reappeared on the pavement With I him was a maiden in a tailormade II gown with a huge cluster of roses at her belt The pinkcheeked man helped the pretty woman into the carriage I car-riage The Kentucky mare never as much as turned her head Is this love of a horse really tame and safe queried the dainty maid as she settled in her seat As safe as you are charming Just watch her step off replied the pink cheeked man as he jumped into the buggy and gathered up the lines The maiden smiled and her escort touched the mares flank with his whip And thenthe mare gave a jump and the maiden a genuine scream The man was thrown half way over the dashboard I took four men and ten minutes time to bring order out of chaos but only five lonely seconds for the maiden to jump out of the buggy and the pinkcheeked man to intone a remark that is to strong for publication publica-tion tonI you ask Mickie Finnegan who witnessed the performance what caused all the trouble he will say Hully Gee der guy wid de boka pinned to his ulster forgot ter untie der nag an him an his mash come bloomin near flyin over der dashboard I dash-board SeeKansas City Times |