Dog Rides a Dray Horse

1910

Sight Arouses Wonder and Applause of Tourists in Los Angeles

The old myth of the six-legged beast that rode the fiery steed is outclassed by a latter-day miracle in the achievement of a four-legged dog which rides a draught horse.

The record of past performances, barring allowances for nature faking, gives the story book performer the best of it in an account of a flight over the Arno, but for easy, safe locomotion, the dog, namely one Bob of Los Angeles, Cal., won all the blue ribbons in a spectacular tour of the downtown district, sitting, with a bland professional air, on the back of the big truck horse drawing a dray.

Tourists, natives, autoists, shoppers, oafs, louts and loungers stopped boosting the climate long enough to marvel and applaud. The horse has a back as big as a pool table, and the dog would be able to stick on if it had only two legs, but this does not lessen its pride in its achievement, and it is with the utmost condescension that it regards ordinary curs walking primitively on the ground.

The owner of the dog and horse, also placid and fat, with a broad back, modestly avoids the white light of publicity, content in the reflected glory of Bob and Jack, and refuses to give the address of the interesting pair.