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Show BOYS CAUSE A RUNAWAY, Old Family Horse Was Not Immune to Pea Shooters. A miraculous cscapo from death was that of Mrs. James Lambert and hor two little children, a girl aged A years and an Infant of 17 months?, last Friday evening. Mr. Lambert, vice-president of the Lambert Lam-bert Paper compuny, was riding with his wife and two children, when ho stopped to see a friend. Ho had no sooner given the reins into tho hands of his wlfo when tho horse, apparently for no reason, bolted bolt-ed and ran at full speed down First West street south. Mrs. Lambert was thrown out on her chest and tho llttlo ones wero bruised about their faces by tho fall they sustained, sus-tained, tho baby receiving a aovero scalp wound. None of the thrco was seriously injured. Tho horse was caught about a block from tho scone of tho accident. It was said by thoae who wero watching when tho horse bolted that the animal's mrtrAmA frlrrht ivrifi lv tllA HtlVlrr of a stone from a pea-shooter manipulated by a small boy. Tho horso was an old family pet and was never known to glvo troublo before, and tho unexpected shock of tho stono madu the trusted animal loao control of itself. |