| Show TROTTING AND AD P PACINg A GING RAGE RACE Cy Y Hoskins Has as a Exciting Experience Experience ence While V hale on His is Way ay to the Co Go Seat Not Injured but hut Nearly earl Scared to tD Deth e t tC h C Cy Cr Hoskins our estimable townsman and one of our most citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens had a exciting experience last Thursday which he says he will not repeat a again ain even h by request Cy and his wife that they would take a trip to the Co Scat in the pung to do some shopping n Hen prop of our Gen General ral Store says that C Cy and his wife ort to be ashamed of not to patronize home tr trade de Cy Cr desired to make as good a slow strow as possible so he hitched up to the pung his trotting horse Jim and his pacing mare Jinny In the past Cy has entered Jim in the trotting races at the Bingville Bing Bing- yule ville Fairs and he has went event a mile milc as fast as 4 mirits mints and a half Jinny cant can't pace that fast but paces as fast as she can Cy Cv aint never these two speeders to together ether but he would do so on this just for the sake of variety Vell Well he had a hard time getting settin the two to stand still till Mrs Hoskins could get in the pung fix the fur robe around her and get Ret her feet on the hot soap stone which she had het up to keep them warm with It was a cold crisp morning mornin and the horses were skittish skittish skittish skit skit- tish and fUll of ginger but finally C Cy and Maria got fixed and then they wen wen-t went towards the Co Seat making the snow fI fly lik like everything c When they got half way down Teck's Hill Jim he struck his trotting stride and tried to keep keel his nose ahead of Jinnys Jinny's This seemed to kind of wake up Jinny to a sense of her t u h. si- si i- i as a pacer and taking the thc bit bitin bitin bitin in her teeth as much as to sa say shed she'd h b- dx if shed she'd let all trotter beat beather beather beather her pacing patine she started in in to get i 1 of Jim Coming Comin so fast through the wind had nearly froze Cy Cys Cy's s 's face offen him and he said his hands was so o cold on the reins he couldn't hold them in in his fingers Cy pressed his feet against the front of the puni pung and pulled and haw led and cawed on the reins in a effort to stop Jim and Jinny Jinn but he hc said he lie mi might ht as well of pulled against a locomotive e By Bv this time Jinny had Jim and the they was going neck and neck then to mak make matters worse Jim had broke into a run in in n I A ahead of Jinny when seemed to rile up the little mare who went offen her feet fert and also broke inn a lope Cy said he never seen two horses horse run so fast in all his life n this time Maria laria had also laid holt bolt on th the I lines nc herself and md tier her ler and Cy was at pulling for dear life tife to stop the horses At the bottom of the hill Jim got so f far in ahead of Jinny that he hc skewed the pun pung around sideways and crowded the little mar marc into the d deep ep snow alongside along along- alongside side the road As soon as one runner I alons-I went up tip on the snowbank over went the pung pungo bottom side up and out went Cy and Maria into a conglomerated heap Cy helt onto the reins and managed managed man man- I aged to stop the horses As for Mrs Ho kins she was wac a good deal shook up and give gie Cy a laying out for or ort t taking her out in iii the pun pung and risking her life and limb behind two sich unruly unruly un un- ruly TIlly beasts as them Cy tried to coa coax her to go on to the thc Count County Seat but she wouldn't do it she wouldn't even cen I Iride ride back home but walked every very step of the way back to Bingville madder than a wet hen while Cy the horses hor hor- j f fies ses es back in a slow walk and put them int into the stable postponing his trip to the Co Scat Seat to a more propitious s season sea sea- a- a son con sonCy on Cy says sas it will ill be a a. colder day than last Thursday before he hitches them two brutes up together again He says both of them ort to have more more sense than to think they could beat each cach other when hen the they was both hitched to together together together to- to gether in the same pung pungo |
