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Minnesota Tales

The Morris Tribune, June 29, 1882, p. 3

MR. PETERS.

Mr. Peters can get up more runaways and smash up more wagons without getting hurt than any other person we ever saw. On Monday morning he gave our local paragrapher an item by performing another one of his favorite feats. Owing to a defect in the harness the whiffletrees were allowed to strike the horses heels. The frightened animal immediately started for town, coming in on Fifth street and going up Atlantic avenue somewhat in the manner of a cyclone to the corner by the Metropolitan where they turned and Peters slipped [off] into the mud, the wagon suffering about the same fate as the historic "wonderful one hoss shay." Peters rubbed the mud from his eyes, helped to pick up the pieces, and without announcing the date of his next performance went his way.