The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-15
Trinks OF hnrse Jockeys.

Jockey tricks are innumerable, and
some of them undoubtedly as old as
the existence OF the very quadruped
himself on which they are practiced.
They are as old as the hills, and still
so new that the green ones are caught
, by them every DAY in the year.
horses sold by the professional dealer
too often "'are not what they seem"
1t is, perhaps, due to this fact that
the very name OF the householder is
in German ''rosstaeuscher," Ii. e..
horse deceiver), showing in what low
estimation our cousins across the water
hold hun. From an exuberance of
tricks as given by a gentleman having
a comprehensive knowledge Of them,
the following are chosen as among the
most startling:
To quickly subject a horse and
make HIM amenable to his owners or
bis trainers will, nothing works SO
unfalliDgly as cummip and oil OF rho
dun. Rub some cummin on his nose,
strew a little over his favorlte food.
and while he is eating watch your
chance and pour some fifteen drops or
so OF the oil on the tip of his tongue.
That brings HIM to every time.
To make a horse perfectly sound
appear lame, all a clever trickster has
to do is to pull out a hair from his
tail, thread a needle with it, shove
the needle through the skin between
the outer and middle tendons of q
fore leg, and put down the foot again.
An hour later the horse will go lame.
The hair pulled ont again, the horse
quickly RECEIVERS, and there Is no harm
done, except, perhaps, an unwilling
owner OF a fine beast forced to sell at
half price.
Among such owners, who are doubly
sold, may also be reckoned those who
buy q horse apparently quite well,
but which next day has the heaves in
an unmistakable manner Such old
cases can be temporarily cured by
giving the animal oAe-shird of a pound
of bird-shot. Until the shot passes
through the system the horse will not
heave.
1t a horse previously good, gentle.
and a steady puller, should suddenly
develop g great aversion to ven pull
q pound of his own weight after his
owner has given him to a dealer to
be sold, it may be that the dealer has
produced the metamorphosis by simply
bathing the shoulders of the horse at
night with a mixture composed of
tincture of cantharides and corrosive
sublimate. Again, applying tallow on
q horses front teeth and to the roof
of his mouth will make him not touch
his teed and be, apparently, very sick,
whereas in rea ity the beast merely
I~-Ia~a patural faolInn nf df0nY1cf
for the depravity OF the human race,
and especially that portion of it known
as horse dealers.
Without having drunk from the
fabulous fountains of youth, IL is
within the resources of a welI-equipped
dealer to make IN old fellow of a
horse look and act like a risky colt.
To do this nothing is necessary but &c
file down his teeth, dot the cavities
by using a red-hot iron, puncture the
skln over the eyes, blow in some
wind, close the hole, pull out the
white hairs, and, presto changed we
have a sleek and lively young horse
after his coat has been manipulated
with white of eggs and ONE cantha
rides gwen him to make him gay and
sportive. The animal may be as ole
as Methusalem, but for the time being
he'll jump around as lively as a cricket
One of the wickedest tricks ever fol-
a horse jockey is that of making a horse
appear glsndered, scare his owner hal
to death about it, threaten to report
him for having a beast with such a dan
gerous disease in his possession. buy
him for a $40 note, and then let the Sly
ounces of melted butter which you
have poured into the ANIMALS ear com
out in a day o. two, and ENJOY the bar
gain of having bought a $1,000 horse
for next to nothing. Most men vii
agree after having been made the vic
TINS of such a little scheme that melted
butter Is all right Oh a Welsh rarebit
but out of place in a horses ear.