The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-02
What Horse wculd Say If he Could.

mere this cbeck-rein. 1t pulls my
head away up in the air. It hurts my
mouth. 1t sometimes gives me
throat disease.
/ can't see the road 80 well aud am
likely to stumble.
| can't draw near so much as
could with my head down, and can't
draw near so easy. tight check
rein puts me in, constant pain.
Please to kindlE take off this check
rein or lengthen it ont so that [ can
put my head down there l want to
when | am going W hill.
And then, there's this matter of
ovcrloadiDg
If | generally draw kindly, but some
day give out and stop, and tell you as
plainly as can that you have put on
toe much load, it isn't right to go to
beating and swearing at me.
1t is much kinder and better to talk
kindly and throw off part of the load
or get another horse, or if the wheel
is in hole ask the people near to take
hold and push.
We horses can't tell our feelings as
you can. Sometimes we are dizzy
sometimes sick.
Sometimes the hostler drives us half
the night, and then turns us out for q
days work next morning.
Sometimes he don't get up in time
to give US our breakfast-sometimes
he forgets to water US.
And then We get old and feeble jnst
as men do, and the older we grow, if
we have worked faithfully, the more
kindly We ought to be treated, and it
isn't right when we have given you q
lifetime of faithful service to sell us off
in our old age for o small sum into the
hands Of hard masters.
Two men or boys of the same size
can't do the same work, neither can
two horses.
We ought to have shade in summer,
warm stables and blankets in winter.
Our stomachs are small and we
ought to be fed and watered often.
We are glad to get slice of bread,
piece Of apple, and dipper of wa
ter.
Always feed us from the palm Of
your hand so that we may not bite
your fingers.
When you put rs in strange stables
never trust the hostler to give US the
oEts. but 60 out and see that he does
it, and stay by us till we eat them, and
see that he don't forget to water US.
Never put the bits into our mouths
on q cold day until you have first
warmed them, so that they won't t take
the skin off our tongues and make it
painful to eat. You wouldn't like to
have frosty iron bits put in your
mouth on cold day.
Always warm our bits in cold wealth
er, and when from old age we can't
chew, please take us to horse doctor
and have our teeth filled 80 that we
can.
When you find our blankets blown
off in cold weather, please put them on
again and tuck them under the her-
ness.
Don't keep twitching the reins when
you drive US. You wouldn't like any
body twitching the reins all the time
if the bit were in your mouth.
Don't over-drive US, and then on the
other hand don't let us stand in the
stable all day without exercise.
Horses and dogs need exercise every
day, and can't be we'll without it.
You wouldn't like to be tied up in a
stall all day and not be permitted to 60
out.
Please to make it a rule that you
will never ride in carriage drawn by
horse with mutilated tail, or poor
looking horse. when you can possibly
help it, and always look at the check
rein. Always select the carriage that
has the best looking horse and tell the
drivers why you do it.
Then when we get run down, We
should like to be sent off in the coun-
try to take little vacation and pick
up.
If all the boys and girls, every time
they see poor, miserable looking
horse, would simply say SO the driver
could hear them, four words, 81 pity
that horse" it would be great bene-
fit to US.
But above all things, kindly remem-
Der that you can do US world Of good
by simply talking to US kindly, telling
us wc are good fellows and all of that.