Show 1 ITNFSI FARMER HAT QUEER RIVE I trsllt Itemus Hope of Montono had nee t wtG n-ee wild ride yesterday which he not want to have repeated very piled It ever was coming from several miles r 1 n the country riding In a platform Isoaer fcv and on top of this he was haul hiotno a neighbors buggy that had fm at disabled In n runaway and was foil bottomside up on Hopes tot T y with the wheels uppermost and here 1 ly I tied In place lope was sitting on some blankets tent were laid on the upturned bottom ftlie neighbors buggy and riding I V it Ii quietly and peaceably when just I the r f e had got about half way down the IIhl I hill past the HemerlcU farm the owed es became frightened sprang to V Ot jside and tipped tho buggy entirely ct ten bottomside up nils manenYer brought Hopes buggy m a f Kigsldo up but also brought the hbors vehicle right slde up and I SIJ one i Hope clinging like a bat beneath I I combination of vehicles the horses lie tub loft down the road at a high rate peed l pay Ing no attention whatever what P he frantic calls to whoa which e shouted to them from his peril tied i position with nothing but his Ring bands and feet to keep him lace Was bard work to hold on and his liigth was just about spent when Etc the rushing horses veered off to near the side of the road near the poor farm and running Into a shallow ditch there tipped the combination vehicle entire ly over again this time with Hopes buggy right side up and the other Inverted In-verted and this placed the farmer In just the same shape he hail been when he started fie lines were still within his reach now that ho could afford to use his hands to pull on them with and ho soon had the horses under control and drove Into town all right But here a new dllllctilty confronted him for no one could believe his story and after friends had smelled his bieath and found he was not Intoxicated Intoxi-cated he was In a fair way to have a court of Inquiry sit on him to Investigate Investi-gate as to his sanity but fortunately just as the matter was growing serious se-rious Indeed two farmers came Into town who had seen the strango spectacle spec-tacle as Hope rushed past beneath the rigs his back scraping the ground and his voice shouting to the horses and their confirmation of his story restored his reputation for sanity at once and made him an object of pity Instead of suspicion Tho neighbor had agreed to pay 1 for having the buggy hauled In but now he will not do so for he claims that Hope used It to haul his own buggy on Cincinnati Enquirer |