The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21
BILL NYE ON THE HORSE.
He Meets a Doctor who Dilates Thereon
His Own Experience with the Genius
HE Had a Hunter Once, a
Clay Bank Filly Named

n horse and the author OF a week on
preparatory Education of the Horse
He gave me one for review. He claims
that very few horses, especially in
America, have proper educational
facilities, and many that they do have
remain unimproved. sit is a common
experience to find" says he horses of
great intellectual capacity, yet middle
aged and disappointed.
"Too many have left the country
and gradually drifted toward the great
cities, especially New York, which
have given more work for horses in the
street car and Fifth avenue stage line
circles thar anywhere else, because she
has been the last to adopt mechanical
methods for pulling street rolling stock.
All the country villages have had cleo,
trio cars for years and years, and so
the country horses, with swelling
bosoms and swollen heads, have gone
to New York, where they have suffered
on in silence, but too proud to return.
Sometimes an American horse is
able to go abroad to finish bis educa-
ton, but very rarely. To travel and
see America is the privilege also of but
few. There are horses that have seen
all of life in Australia and Europe,
crossing the continent of America
afterwards"
The doctor regrets that the education
of the horse has been sadly neglected,
and that the selflmade or self-educated
horse is the rule rather than the excep
ton.
For some years the doctor, who is a
veterinary surgeon. has occupied a
chair in the hor7e college for diseases
of the eye and ear. He is a WeIshman
by birth and has imported many Shet-
land ponies to this country. He has
also brought over many beautiful,
sleek, cOntraItO jacks to this country
from Spain They are held ia high
esteem by the people of Spain and are
called ministers. This is no joke, but
a living fact and not intended to reflect
upon the clergy. Go the Editor
Probably this is too true for publica-
tiOn.)
The doctor says that he attended a
royal bull fight at the capital, and,
though accustomed to sights of great
suffering, and having been through all
the slaughter houses of Chicago and
the abattoirs of Paris, he was still I'M
prepared for the sad and sickening
sight. He had come prepared to see
the maradors, or whatever they are,
knocked about by the bull to the lively
music of the band and had hoped that
one or two might be fatally injured,
but they where not. Eighteen horses
torn and mortally gored showed, how
ever, that the fight had been a success.
How different people are in respect to
their pleasures and their methods of
relaxation!
1 think we all have something of the
brute in us, but not in the same way.
Some of us are sly and secretive like
the fox-for instance, like the detec-
tive. Imet one the other day whom
1 had seen a year ago for a moment.
We met on the orr of the main
street, in front of the postofice, and
he told me why he was there. He was
on the trail of a man who had wrong
fully taken &c. 900 in government
bonds. i've found him." he said,
land now I'm looking for the bonds"
"Why don't you ask some of these
people who are coming for their mail9'
1 said with a sheer. Then I asked him
if the man was still at large.
ooh, yes" he said, Eve are watch
ing him to see where the bonds are.
Oh, yes; you have to shadow a man
sometimes for years. I went around
the world shadowing a man last year.
Saw everything and kept him in sight
also. The bank paid the expenses
without a murmur, except where 1
had charged the expenses OF an engage
ment ring worth 500 kreutzers to the
concern because I had to make love to
the girl in order to pump the victim
through his valet, who was the girls
brother.
They said 400 ~kreutzers was all they
could allow on that. Hist!" he said,
"here comes my bird now down the
street, with no more idea that he's my
h~uckleberry than a nan in the moon.
Glance at him as he goes by, and will
look the other way"
did 50. 1t was a fair haired young
man, aud as he went by he gave me a
loud and merry wink of the other eye.
Reports say that he has once more
eluded the vigilance of the detectives,