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Last January (1885) was very cold in Massachu- 

 setts, and all traffic was conducted by means of 

 sleighs. On January 30, a horse was being driven 

 through Cambridge, when it took fright and ran away. 

 It upset the sleigh, flinging the occupants into the 

 snow, and then dashed off, banging the over-turned 

 sleigh against all objects that came in its path. 



Before the former occupants could pick themselves 

 out of the snow, the sleigh and horse were out of 

 sight. Inquiries were made for them, but without 

 any success, both having vanished as if by a conjuring 

 trick. This happened on a Tuesday morning, and not 

 until the afternoon of the following Friday were the 

 missing horse and fragments of the sleigh discovered. 



The animal, urged by the blind terror which 

 sometimes takes possession of a horse, had dashed 

 between two barns. The walls of the barns were not 

 quite parallel, but slightly sloped inwards. 



So the horse found himself in a wedge-shaped 

 passage, too narrow, in fact, to allow him to pass 

 through it. When he tried to back out of the passage, 

 he was stopped by the broken sleigh, which was 

 firmly jammed crosswise between the barns. 



The weather was very cold, twenty degrees below 

 freezing point, and there was a fierce north-west wind 

 blowing. Unfortunately the barns were built in a 

 north-west direction, so that the passage between 



