Harpers Ferry Free Press

Remarkable sagacity of a horse.--On Sunday morning last, about 1 o'clock, Mr. James D. Merritt, of the Purchase, set off in haste to call a physician to his wife. When within a quarter of a mile of the Saw Pit, where the doctor resided, the horse fell, and broke the thigh of Mr. M. in a shocking manner--and immediately walked a short distance towards a house; but apparently satisfied that the cries of his master for assistance from the family at that hour of the night, were unavailing, returned, and bent his head downwards, insomuch that Mr. M. was enabled to lay hold of the mane of the horse, and after a struggle of 20 minutes, as he thinks, succeeded in getting the foot of the well leg in the stirrup, and the broken one across the back of the horse. During this time the faithful animal remained perfectly still--and Mr. M. being reinstated upon his horse, though suffering the most excruciating pain, rode to the house of the Physician, where his thigh was immediately set--and the doctor despatched to the relief of his family.

N. Y. Patriot.