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A Little Story

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Maay of the older residents of this section remember the lfte Dr. Warner, of New Milford, and will appreciate this little story, says the IJanbury News. When Dr. Warner was a student at Yale he used to come home Saturday nights and return to New Haven Mondays. That was before the days of railways, and, as stage coaches did not leave New Milford Monday mornings for New Haven, young Warner used to mount his iather's horse and ride to Yale on horaeback. There were several toll gates on the route, and at each Warner would pay the return toll for his horse. Arrivingr at Yale he would affix to the bridle a carel bearing these .words: "Please not stop this horse." The sagacious animal would jog along homeward, invariably reaching his stall at New Milford all right The toll takers got to know the horse and he never was interrupted. On Fridaya the horse would be ïtarted alone to New Haven wlth a small pouch attached to his saddle, in which was the exact change for the tolls. Each toltaker would take his toll and the horse would trot along, reaching Yale in the evenlng. This practico was kept up until the young doctor was graduated.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier