Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-23
AN ENGLISH STABLE.
VARIOUS TYPES OF HORSES DE-
SCRIBED BY AN OWNER.


The Grooms Favorite-The siashing, Well |
Bred but Unsafe Horse-uandsome but |
u G., s v o,s
The Wife's steed-lhe Hack.
Wall bera is , bo,.ea with &. Mai, baed |
rather a short rack moderate shoulders n |
good barrel fair cuarters and most excel |
Iert feat and laos Feel them and Won will |
fnd tbar cool and avan in tannaraf,,ra and
the s;news hard and fine He is little want
,ng in opa,+v be is not fast--;n fact i, a
ouick rm If is all Won can do to keen in the
Immediate rear of the frs. f1igbt with him
He is not exactly had hunter but he pives
b;s rider tha ir,ression that no disiikes
ipnninp and he is a little sloyenlv at his
fences What. then. are his virtues3 He Is
the sroom's favoritet He is never off his
feed. and he thoroughly masticates his corn
He is n re,narkahIv sound horse He navar
throws n shoe He ALWAYS comes ont in His
+rrr Never, has he baen known 10 -aer b;s
clothing. to kick when being dressed IN cat
his straw or 10 commit any other stahla
ofYense He is easy to box at a railway STA
tion: A child might ride him without a
saddle at exercise; when being Clipped or
n
s+;ll doas bo s+,,,d. ond bs Sea,,s ,,,s;,;,.1,-
70 a., i,,, nbvs;c ACCORDINGLY, vbaro,,a,- i,;s
master tails of selling him the Sind Groom
protests that it swould h, n tbousand pities y
that .stato i'm nil and all he's tba host ,osS
| we,ve GOT
W. 80 oo,,,o +, ,r.oo+ s,.e,,;r,, mol, 49,,
horse with nlentv Of mower Tste csre,
NJ, ,,r e., bin, uoI,r,a,i,,os 60 -. "
I
| is as sound ms a bell FE is very fest and a
Grand fonrer. bitches on the near side ditcbos
| on tho far side hanks timhar uo+ar oil orc
| tho sor,o r, hin, He will 6rht for bic Lao5
| n c,o5 daa1 whom boppds tirst On au,ov. he
~ o,d lo ,loas NOT 1;I,a 10 ha baiI-at 81 Ii
| ferras Ua doas not avactlr rusb ot tbann
hut ha is very bo+ and iunatnons Tins haing
the c,sa l,e is far from a pleasant borsa in o
cramrad connrrv on h,d scant;no, day
~ ~. IT,, =, . -oo,,,,, -, '.,;Is.
ont of o,ba,. borsas f.rd .srvben he ,lo I.icl
he 40 ticl Iil,a hIszas > as the cahr,a,, SOW,
in IAech's cal.icafure, 50 it is not safe To tale
him into a crowd He a dificuIt horse to
hoy tnn. 50 If is inconvaniant to tal-a him b,,
train Retwaan one tbinor or,d onotbor tbara
n,,l,- obC,,+ ,, ,,oa+ i, +o,, do,-s a. ,rL;,l,
bis ,,rasat master can ride him with ,,fo,t
NOT A Sound ANIMAL.
"Strip that 'ossr saws that official TO a
beIner ms we move on to the ney. hoy This
;s tho hast lool-ine, horea in tho Stah,a Tn
foct he is a re1narkablv handsome sneci,nan
~ a brr+ar. bapca tho erroo,o,s anxia.,, r.
sbo,v him; Of IT vou1d I've bari n fi1d a
7 fouIt u-;+b him Hecos+ sorna+tiu,, fe hr,ons
E Indeed he is :, valuable that his master !,
afraid of riding him. This fear is increased
=, hv su,drv alarming svmntoms tbot bar,
: manifested themselves from tiroa to tir,a
After one DAYS bnntino his near fore Iee
fIlad in a snSpicious manner. aftar another
he was lame without apv apparont cause
and in a certain run his owner half s1ISnaetat
that his wind was not so good as il might be
He has had several had colds and occasion
pIiv he has corns He cones ont nratt,
often, at near meets; but his master peve
seems to ride hard on him, and he is alway
sent home early.
In the next box is a confidential lookip
ouadruped. The holes above his ewes hi
long taeth his sr,nLan hack and the manne
It in which he stands over betokan aee. He
k II wears old: nevertheless, he goes on. somt
b times lame, sometimes sound. He is so cleve
d and such an old favorite that his master cal
e not make up his mind to srpplant him with
y yot,ncer and more seryicaable horse Fxcs
+, lent fencer as he is, he viii not, and neve
would. face water. His master has to /
careful. too, neither to let him Jump down
drop into hard road nor to send him to
K distant meet, nor TO make a long dav wit
him. Like most very old horses, he has 10:
his speed: and he has become dangerousl
clever at his fences, saving himself by Greer
ing Jumping on and off. or scrambliac
and out, where one would expect him to a,
He will probably end his career by Givin
his devoted owner very bad fall.
my wIFE's HORSE
This our friend shows to us as "my wife
horsg.r Heis a model of what a Iadv's hor,
ought to be in make and shape, breedin,
temper and manners. Lucky the woma
who possesses such a hunterI Between o.
tertaininr guests, visits, colds and addition
. to the family. nv lady gives her horse
rather easy time of it. Moreover on II
strength of her husbands having rot on h,
fayorIte for an hour on two occasions Il
wife has been heard coolly to assert that 81
had not been hunting at all that season,
cause she gave up her horse to her husban
whereas she had in reality been preventt
from hunting by very different reasons,
is scarcely to be wondered at that the hu
hand refrained from riding the cherish,
ouatruped for the future, and when his WI
suddenly took it into her head to 60 O
hunting at short notice, the creature was
playful that madame was almost, if n
quite. unseated. Confidential friends tn,