Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02

away with their hind legs as fast as you
can build 1t up"
what is your way for making a horse
stop biting?" asked the New York man.
"Why, the pin'll answer there just as
we'll as before. When a horse snaps at
you catch him by the nose and run a pin
right through between the nostrils. He'll
stop biting fast enough. If he begins
again, do the same thing once more and
before long you will have him cured for
life. No, II isn't cruel it's the kindest
way IN the long run, because it's the
quickest"
"Its funny what fool horse is about
some things" broke in tie man from the
plains. Now, our bronchos out there,
take one that's been bred on the prairies.
If you come In from a ride and get Off
leaving the reins over his neck, he will
start away on a dead run because he
knows he's not hitched, but If you pull
the reins over his head and let them hang
down over the bit, why you can leave him
stand all day and he won't run, because
he thinks he is held by larlat. He may
walk away slowly eating grass. but you
couldn't make him run until you pulled
up the Bride"
What you were just saying about n
horses ears" spoke up stable man who
had Joined the group, reminds me of a
trick that circus riders have. heard
about 1t from one of the performers in
the Barnum show He claims that horse
can't shy or balk or rear until he throws
his ears forward"
Tile can't kick until he throws his ears
back, I know that" said the downeaster.
We'll. / am talking especially about shy
Ing. This circus rider told me that all the
men In the ring, whenever they think a
horse is going to shy, just tuck his ears
back under his bride band and then they
know they're all right. The horse Is so
surprised to find his ears won't come for
ward when he wants to do any deviltry,
that he forgets TO do It, and just Keeps
thinking about Ills ears. Queer, amt it?'
Speaking Of balky horses" said the
New York dealer, II was going to tell you
how n partner Of mine fixed one. I never
had so much fun watching anything as
that day This horse was regular devil
nobody could make him move when he
didn't want to. SO one day my partner
said he'd make him move. and they all bet
he couldn't do IT, He said. all right and
went ahead. First, he put the harness or
the horse, traces and all: then he brought
out another horse that wasn't balky and
harnessed him up tail to tall and set him
pulling against the balky horse. AS soor
as he began to pull the balky horse felt
the strain on the traces, and, ACCORDING
to his usual custom. he hraced himself
ing. My partner he whipped up the other
horse, and the result was over went Mr.
! Baky Horse, clean on to his back. II,
was the most surprised horse YOU evei
saw. When he got up they tried 1t agar
and he didn't pull back so hard, but wen
over just the same. The third time he't
learned his lesson. and before the goot
horse could give his first tug. the balk,
horse had started ahead as hard as h,
I tp,y hn ny Whpau,
how he did run. And he never balket
again"
/ After this the talk ran along on variou!
lines, the most interesting thing being {
story told by the stable man about how {
shrowd horse doctor got n valuable
thoroughbred for S25 1t seems thi
thoroughbred had broken his fetlock in 1
race, and the owner came up with som'
men to kill him. This Is the way they al
ways do, you know, to put horses out o
their agony. Well, this horse docto
thought he would take n little risk, an'
offered S2j for the horse the way he was
The owner took the money and the hors
doctor got the horse on to "A car and car
ried him to his home up in Connecticut
rugged up swinging apparatus that hel'
the horse in the air, put tho injured le;
in plaster case, kept the horse there TO
two or three months. with his foot off tn
ground and when he took the bandage
off he was as sound as n dollar. The stabl
man claimed that hundreds of horses ar
killed every year that might just as wei
be saved.
81 knew a case" said the downeaster
where horse got his shoe in a car tract
and pulled the whole hoof off. Some mel
wanted to kill him. but the owner SAT-
mo- took care of him in his stables for
few months. and n new hoof grew on jus
like the old one. A horses hoof is jus
like a mans finger nails, anyway"
These are some Of the queer things tina
| heard in this circle of horse lovers VIII
knew what they were talking about.