HOW CASEY THE COP SPELT “KOSCIUSZKO” (1904) An apocryphal "tail" about a #Brooklyn policeman who came across a dead horse on a difficult-to-spell street. tinyurl.com/tu3wehp7 Image
“There was once an Irish policeman who was responding to the presence of a dead horse on Kosciuszko Street." Image
Upon arriving at the scene of the dead horse, Casey began to write his report. When he got to the part where he was supposed to write the location in which the horse was discovered, the policeman faltered. Image
“He did not know how to spell the street name!"
“So, a few moments later, Casey grabbed the horse by its tail, and began dragging it down the street to the corner of Marcy Avenue. Once there, he stopped, pulled the report out from his cap, and spelled the ‘location’ of the dead horse – ‘Marcy Avenue.'” (..the end of our tail!)

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