> 9 o ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



whether it would end in dividing the poor animal 

 asunder, or in bringing the roof of the stable bodily 

 to the ground ; for it was fast giving way under 

 the pressure. Lots of people then said that ' they 

 knew it would be so.' But, possessing this gift 

 of prophecy, it is to be regretted they did not 

 exercise it before the attempt, and not after its 

 failure. 



Yet undeterred, each one had again his own plan 

 to suggest, as visionary and absurd in my opinion as 

 the first. Consequently, I would not listen to them, 

 and insisted on having my way tried. Pickaxe and 

 shovel were soon had, and the ground removed in 

 front of the horse's fore-legs in a slanting direction 

 towards the manger, so that in struggling he might, 

 with assistance, be enabled to get footing; and he 

 walked out, like climbing up a steep hill, at two 

 o'clock the next morning, and was thus rescued from 

 his uncomfortable situation. Mr. Angell, with the 

 rest, worked like a nigger. Poor creature! when 

 once more on his legs — the horse I mean, not Mr. 

 A n g e ll — he was unable to support himself without 

 assistance ; his hind-parts being seemingly paralyzed. 

 But on removing the dirt and being carefully tended, 

 he recovered, and was enabled the next day to return 

 home in the van that had brought him. It was very 

 remarkable that in the fall he had only rubbed a little 

 skin from off his back, and slightly cut his near hind- 



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