Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser

Remarkable Sagacity of a Horse. On Sunday morning last, about one 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 Sawpit, where the doctor resided, the horse fell and broke the thigh of Mr. M. in a shocking manner, and immediately walked a short distance toward a house; but, apparently satisfied that the cries of his master for assistance from the family, at that hour of the night, were unavailing, he returned and bent his head downward, insomuch that Mr. M. was enabled to lay hold of the mane of the horse, and after a struggle of twenty minutes, as he thinks, succeeded in getting the foot of the well leg into 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 thus 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 dispatched to the relief of his family.
N. Y. Patriot.