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Show FED HIMSELF TO THE HORSE Unpleasant Few Minutes for Small Boy Who Tumbled Down Chute With the Hay. One morning, when little Hal Perry was doing chores in his father's barn, he met with an accident that placed him iD a peculiarly helpless position. He had made his way to the left loft to get down fodder for the stock. In-climbing In-climbing over the hay he slipped and fell, feet foremost, into one of the chutes. When he came to a stop his bare feet extended to the manger where Jim, the only bad-tempered horse in the barn, was hungrily seizing seiz-ing mouthfuls of the fodder. The boy screamed for help, but no one henrd him, for the house was at some distance, and his voice was: muffled. There was nothing that offered of-fered a hold ; the chute had been made, smooth in order that the hay might' slide through easily. He tried to gain; a purchase by thrusting outward with' his elbows, so that he might lift his feet, but it was of no use; he could: not even kick. The horse, in pulling away the fodder, nipped at his toes. "Whoa! Stop that!" yelled the boy. But the horse naturally continued! to eat his breakfast, and more than; once nipped as If purposely nal'sj legs and toes. After a few minutes the farmeri providentially entered the building and; heard his son sobbing and calling,' "Father, come quick! Jim is eating: me." "Where are you?" shouted the farmer. far-mer. "In the chute." "Back, Jim!" roared the man; and the horse obeyed. Mr. Perry hastily turned Jim loose In the yard, and. seizing a rope, leaped' upstairs. Making a noose, he let it down to the small boy, who slipped, it under his arms, and ceased to cry as he felt himself being drawn safely up. Youth's Companion. |