Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-19
HU M ROUS.
The Fat Contributor as Horse Man
HIs Answers 60 COrresDendents.

1 1lD1GSs VIII dc lOllnu DOYLE
nent and interesting:
p. III. O. (Boston.) The following is
left for your decision: A bets b that
the horse PolIyfox can't build sixty
rods of stone fence inside of 2:27 ID
with one hand tied behind him, to har-
ness, in a game of 1 200 points, caroms
In case of a miss cue, Tor AIRS. Cue. as
the case may be), on the first bound
with only two TO go, what is trump ?
Answer. 1t do.
FL. b. III. (Oriskany, n. W The Gel
ebrated trotter Ethan Allen is not the
Ethan Allen who captured Ticonder-
oga. That wasn't his forte.
SAwHoRsE providence, r. IL
Dexter never went to school day in
his life; he preferred to go to horse
races. He has been around consider
able, and shown a great deal of dexter.
lily.
GILES (Westmoreland, N. Y.).-Your
idea of chestnut horses growing from
horse chestnuts is prepOsterous. Horse
pistols come PIP from Colts revolyers.
don't they? You had better read some
standard work on the horse. If Won
havn't any horse to read 1t ON, then
read it on foot.
KEAN (Bufalo). The ''pale horse"
never trotted to harness that we ever
heard of. AS for trotting against
Time, he is death on it.
ANVIL, cortland, Me- Horse shoes
are not obtained at the horseshoe fall,
Niagara. They are grown on horse
shoe geraneums.
FREE PRESS BOB (Detroit.) Flora
Temple wasn't out of the Mormon
Temple, Salt Lake City. 1t is another
family.
j. W. F. cleveland, o. Will you
please inform me how to make a "horse
tamer?" Answer: Give the horse a dose
of laudanum; that will make horse
tanner than any thing else, except
shooting him.
WALT. STOCKING, ALBANY, N. "
Troy hasn't produced any good horses
in several years. When the Troians
were beaten SO badly for the Hellenic
purse by the "Greek Horse" from
Dublin, they became discouraged, and
haven't done anything in the horse line
since. The Crock Horse was sired by
Agamemnon and d,IDa'd by all Troy.
SUBSCRIBER, New Orleans) Will
you please decide the following:
Two horses are playing seven-up.
One horse turns up a jack, goes it alone
to wagon, and makes dead heat. The
Other horse orders up the umpire,
straddles the blind, rolls off his spare.
and comes in under one blanket. What
is his pedigree? Answer: Discovered by
Christopher Columbus in 1892.
GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT THE HORSE.
The horse existed before the food.
He accompanied Noah's menagerie, as
may be seen by the representation of
the embarkatiOn of that rare collection
of animals in the childrsn's primers.
He has always been a favOrite among
the b6rbar0us tribes of the east, their
style being hostile. The Spaniard
COrtez first introduced the horse upon
this continent during his fillibustering
expedition IN Mexico to avenge the
death of Macmillan. The wondering
natives supposed horse and rider to be
one-not won in rattle, exactly, but
one and inseparable, now and forever.
I'm for the Declaration, &c.
FETLOCK (Sheboygan). Who has
made the fastest time over stone
road? Answer: Old Put, when he
beat the British out of the crooks -
He came out neck ahead, although
it was thought he wouldn't at one time.
Shortly after that event British racer,
Major Andre, ran for big prize, and
came ont q neck behind.
TUCKER Rome, N. " What causes
heaves in horses? Answer: Sickness
at the stomach. Horses are a good
deal like human beings. If they amt
sick at the stomach they won't beaUe.
DAT BIN, (St. Louis.l My wife is
teasing me to get little sulky; where
is the best place to get one?
Ans. Right there, in st. Louis
Let Your wife receive attentions from
some other man, and if You don't get
a title Sulky you are different from most
men.
BRICK LA Crosse, Wis., Your plan
for warming a stable in the winter by
setting fire to it, might work if the
stable was sufficiently insured. a
neighbOr of Onrs built himself a splen-
did stable last winter, furnished with
all the modern improvements, gas, hot
aud cold water, &c. One of his cred
itors got out an execution on it and he
he warmed it.
SCUTANAwBEQUoN (Madison, WiscOn-
SIM There are all sorts of gaits among
horses. Some have only one gait while
Others will take every gate they come
to. No two horses run alike. While
one horse runs to grass another runs
away to skin and bones.
ELwooD, cleveland, o. writes: /
have a black-and-tan mare with chest
nut teeth and sorrel eye, that is
blind in the left fore foot and limps a
little in her right ear, otherwise her
intellect is unimpaired. Would a
course of instruction In Commercial
College be beneficial to her? Answer:
Reckon it would-couldn't say-told
you all about it before-don't know
how old he did when he was-read our
book on the subiect-never did and do
now-hath it, don't it not?
ANDY (Cincinnati). You are wrong
1t isn't necessary to build a row of
bontires around track in order for a
horse to run heat. ''Pools" at the
races are not horse ponds exactly,
although men are nearly suffOcated IN
them sometimes.
The horse is IA very sympathetic crea-
tnre, exhibiting touching devotion to
man, If yOu are disgusted with the
world, and feel as if You wanted to run
away from everything, he will run away
with you, like as not. The strength of
the horse is wonderful. We have known
Flora Temple to draw fifty Thousand
people at once.
"A young lady from the seminary at
M, being asked at the table il she
would have some more cabbage, replied: