Show FIRST RIDE job agha U gilpin performance urme h showed young phils pluck the following story was told by tho the rev J T headley historian and abiog raphe of many of the heroes of the war in regard to a boyhood experience of general 1 sheridan Sher faan at five years of age he fie was playing near his fais come home when same lads came along and paused themselves with the wide awake boy A horse wai waa feeding in an adjacent lot phil would you yon like a ride they raid enid to him yes give Giver me neone one in a few moments the boy was on the animals back the sudden and cincere motions mon ious mounting of the young rider startled the steed and away he ran whon whoa V whoa shouted the lads but ut in T vain tin in over tho the fince the animal deprang and once on the highway it was wag a john gilpin performance phil clung to the mane while the sobered authors of the race turned pale with apprehension of a tragic end to it expecting to see him dashed to the earth and killed but out of sight vanished both steed and rider and miles soon intervened between the two parties suddenly the horse turned into the shed of a tavern where its owner had bad frequently stopped in hk bik travels men came out cut and the horse borsch questioned the boy one of the curious company after Ee securing curing the foaming animal nab which cb bad neither eadle nor bridle inquired of the phil who taught you to ride nobody answered the boy did no one teach you yon how to sit on a horse asked another I 1 oh yes bill seymour told me to hold on en w with ith nay my knees and I 1 did you yon frightened nary a bit I 1 wanted to go farther but the horse birse v nt go aint you yon sore kinder but ill be better tomorrow and then ill ride back home that toy loy said the questioner has pluck enough to bo be an indian hunter 1 the owner of the nag turned up not long afterward in search of his bis property he said that the animal was waa vicious and had bad thrown more than one experienced horseman new york Tribu tribune tim |