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Show Riding Underneath the Hor. During the Russo-Japanese war arr officer of Cossacks offered to curry a. dispatch which ten horsemen had already al-ready failed to get through. The p-o-eral said that the effort was uki-Ioww. "The others have failed," tJie officer of-ficer insisted, "because they tram'' on horseback. I shall go under my horse." The general was astonished; but the officer's offer was finally a:c'(it-i He started off In the middle of tlio night, strapped face downward uiuWt hip horne, which he guided by ia of the bridle through the foreleg. Ttir Japanese -whistled to what tli"y thought was a riderless hor. Hut the animal, egged on by blow lrciri the officers heels, accuili:',lik'd It-? journey of 35 miles In safely. Stranger still, the officer asmi-plished asmi-plished the return Journey on t!e tl-lowing tl-lowing night. |