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BETTER THAN ADVICE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 4, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 18.

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BETTER THAN ADVICE.

THE other day, when a horse drawing a cartful of coal got stalled on West Street, the public was promptly on hand with advice.
"Put on the whip!" shouted the driver of an express wagon.
"Take him by the head!" added a truckman.
"If that was my hoss," said a man with a bundle of clothes under his arm, "I'd tie a cloth over his eyes. I've seen it tried a hundred times, and it makes 'em pull their best."
"Don't believe it," said a man with a cane. "I've owned horses all my life, and I've had some bad ones among them. The only thing to do is to blow into his right ear."
"You mean the left," said a small man with a very thin voice.
"No, I don't! I mean the right ear. I've tried it often enough, I guess."
A crowd of fifty people had gathered, and now the driver got down, and looked the ground over. One wheel was down in a rut. He stood looking at it, his hand on the horse's hip, and everybody around him tendering advice, when a couple of sailors came along, and one of them called out:—
"Ah! mate, but here's a craft on a reef."
"Over with her, then."
Both seized a wheel for a lift, the driver clucked for the horse to go ahead, and away went the load as easy as you please. They were the only two of the whole crowd who had not advised the driver how to do it.—New York Sun.