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Show lOClLAK DEMONSTRATION. Ifinl and Awful-Looking Quadruped I Develops Unexpected Speed. liilapidated hoy on the scat of a Iking cart was undertaking the task K'iiij? a weird and awful horso up 1 uremic, one morning this week, In he was stopped by a policeman, I at oiiee became tiie center of a 'lis crowd, says the Now York Sun. lot down off "that cart," said the li'llliUl. IVy fur!'' asked the boy, permit! iug liorsu to perforin its bent of coming complete standstill, loiirplug is lame," said tho police- lli' plug's me own, an' he's just I' having his breakfast." responded If, on tomato cans," sarcastically liimeil the policeman. "Oct down lour curt." I'! boy descended to the pavepient. I nhaniess that horse and take hiin I;' or I'll make a complaint against lie boy went quietly about his work InliM-nessing tho wretched .beast.v I a few moments nothing was said, lyes were iixeil upon t he boy as he "il the ropes that held the angular I dejected animal to tie shafts of tho lie horse did not. evince any sur- whatever at the unexpected ex- nee that he was the hero of, but I'ly hung his head and caught a few Ks of sleep, while tho cold breeze I'M Ms grizzled mane and almost foruietl an .liolian melodvanfong his I After a while he was free of tho I and the bov, after tying up tho Jve ends of the rope and leather f (liiuglcd from his harness, gathered I ns into his hands and cast a look liv if1'' '"'l'lacable policeman. IjHill;' hu exclaimed, interroga- "c.Policcnian looked back into his I' wing eyes andsaid: l.:Nu"' .von get home." !iu hoy turned the horse's head in a finvavd direction. Tlie beast t.-,."""1 "P strangely and gazed I" wigliteuing eye down through tho F V?.a of th avenue. Then he 1 l his tail aloft and whinnied. I1' W cried the bov. I jjt .was suflicient. The crowd was 1,1 ,i 1 .of tho' scamper that ensues n he Hag falls at a race track. It .( l.la'ne hiA'se, that one, but. he cvi-I cvi-I f ,a- a Srain of thoroughbred I ,. V.m' fr with his hind quarters !"'nS hko a kangaroo, he sped over n VC"i1P,Us !l? tuugh a purse of t "as laid on m-s jretting home at a I: a 'c- The boy eluug to the IX , j"st hefore getting out of r8 he turned and shouted back at I zed policeman: I h v a,ln't yo a foolt" iZv- ",! fl-vinK steed vanished with lim,.iln,tlie distance the policeman f iow .edged to the crowd that he was. |