PENRITH HERALD, October 10, 1874 / MORE SMALL NEWS ITEMS.

[Barb Ontario Canada]

A RACE BETWEEN A HORSE AND AN ENGINE. – MR. DAVID CURLE, of Winfell, having purchased “a stag” at Brough Hill Fair, left it for the night at MR. FULTON’s Bankend Farm.  In the morning, being unsettled, this young Bucephalus took the fence on to the Eden Valley Railway, which runs through the farm, and got on to the line.

        Whilst there, a train came along, and away went the horse at full speed right along the line, followed by the engine and train.  The race to the onlooker seemed pretty equal, the advantage if anything, being in favour of the horse, which gained upon its competitor.

           The engine driver, however, seeing “danger ahead” at last drew up, and the horse, also thinking the contest at an end, stopped too, so that with a little trouble it was got off the line, and the train proceeded on its journey.

 

AN INFERENCE AND A CAUTION. – A few days before Brough Hill Fair, a stranger was making enquiries in the neighbourhood of Kirkby Stephen for a cow which he wished to purchase.  On being asked what sort of beast he wanted, he replied that “any sort of an old screw” would do, as he only wanted to spend about a sovereign over her.  Whether he succeeded or not we did not hear, and the object of the stranger seemed a mystery.

            On Brough Hill, however, the matter was to some extent elucidated, for prominent where people most do congregate might be seen our quondam friend, the “screw” seeker, clean washed and shaved, with white apron, and knife in hand, busily engaged in cutting, and selling as fast as he cut “fine beef sandwiches” which the customers, with sharpened appetites, devoured with the greatest apparent gusto.

            Whether the information we have now imparted would have helped their digestion we cannot say, but certain it is,  speaking for ourselves, we have for ever foresworn eating sandwiches at Brough Hill Fair.

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barb, ontario, canada.