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Show Duke's Narrow Escape. Duke is known by sight to most of the children of the United States. He is the last horse Colonel Cody rode in battle. Last fall, in that railroad slaughter of equines in North Carolina Duke was berthed aboxxt the middle of the second car from the engine. Dad, his mate, stood beside him and wan so mangled that he had to be shot. Every other horse in the car was killed, and in the darkness and attendant excitement the entire congress of rough riders, from Major Burke down, supposed that Duko had gone to the happy hunting grounds of tho Blue Grass, in company of the herd. When daylight came he was seen in a nearby field, eating. No bones were broken, but the horse suffered all winter from tho shock, and for months has been in the hands of the most expert massagist to be found in the United States. |