Friday, January 16, 2004 :::
Don't Know But Its Funny ...
I don't know what the context is, but this blog entry cracked me up like nothing has in a long time.
(Overheard) Spiritual Nugget of the Day:
"Its just like puking, it only hurts when you try not to do it."
As Promised ...
FEARFUL ACCIDENT -- A HORSE DRAGGING A DEAD BODY THREE WEEKS. -- Early in August, John Bawle, a lad of 16 years, living in Volcano, Amador county, Cal., who had vainly been endeavoring to obtain his father's consent to go to Frazier River, disappeared, taking with him a valuable horse belonging to the family. It was supposed he had started for Frazier River, and no little anxiety was felt in regard to him. On the 15th of August his body was found in the Butte Ditch, a few miles East of Jackson, attached by a "lariat" to a half-dead horse.
From appearance, the boy, on the night after leaving home, lay down to sleep, with the horse tied to his person, to prevent his escape. The animal, becoming unmanageable through fright during the night, had run off, and dragging his master by the rope until the boy's life was extinct. Afterwards the horse had continued to graze around, dragging the body along for three weeks. Finally, the corpse had been dragged into a ditch, where it became entangled beyond the horse's strength to extricate it. In his efforts to pull loose, the horse had cut his neck to the bone with the rope. The boy's remains were horribly mutilated. Most of his limbs were broken and the flesh rubbed bare from the bone.
--- The North Carolina Standard, September 25, 1858.
::: posted by tom at 10:28 AM
