The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-05-29
THE CAR SICK HORSE |
HOW A RAILROAD JOURNEY AFFECT
ED a HIGH BRED HACKNEY.

why 1t Ended So Observation-Disclosures
rifYinG Ride In Wheeled BOX
After II Hothousc Training.
The story of what happened to
high bred hackney when he was sent
by rail TO the Madison Square Garden
horse show is told by Sewcll Ford in
Horses Nine" Bonfire was the hack
ney's name, but he did not look at all
fiery at the moment. The author says
of him:
In his stomach was a queer feeling
which lie did not at all understand. In
lis bead was dizziness which mutle
him wish that the stall would not
move about so. Strcaks OF pain shot
along his backbone and slid down his
legs. Hot and cold flashes swept over
his body, for Bonfire had bad case
OF car sickncss-a malady differing
from seasiclincss largely in name only
also Il we'll developed cold compli-
Gated by nervous indigestion.
Tuned to the key, he had left the
home stables. Then they had led him
into that box OH wheels, and the trou-
bic had begun. Men shouted; bells
Changed; whistles shricked. Bonfire
felt the box start with Il jerk and,
humping. rumbling, jolting, swaying,
move somewhere off into the night.
In an agony Of apprchcnsion-ncck
stretched, eyes staring, ears pointed,
noStrils Quivcring, legs stiffened-Bop-
fire waited for the end. But of end
there seemed to he mono. Shock after
shock Bonfire withstood and still found
himself waiting. What it all meant he
could not guess. There were the other
horses that had been taken with him
into the box. some placidly munching
hay. others looking Curiously about.
There were the familiar grooms who
talked soothingly in his car and pattcd
his neck IN vain. The terror of the
thing, this being whirlcd noisily away
in box. had struck deep Into Bonnre's
brain, and he could not get it out SO
he stood for many hours, neither cat
jBy nor sleeping. listening to the
noises, faei!ng the motion and trcm-
bling rs one with ague.
OF course it was absurd for Bonfire
to go to pieces in that fashion. You
can ship n Missouri Modoc around the
world. and he will finish almost as
sound as hn started. But Bonfire had
blood and breeding and q pcdlgrea
which went back to Lady Alice of Burn
Brao. YORKSHIRE.
His c0itdcm had baeN a sort Of hot.
house existence. for I.ochlynnc. You
know, is the toy OF II Pennsylvania coal
baron who breeds hackneys not for
prcfit, but fer the joy there is in 1t,
just rs ether men grow RrclIhs and
build cup defenders. At the Lechlynno
stables they turn on tho steam heat in
November. On ra!Ty days you arc eX-
nrcisCd in Il glass rooted tan bark ring.
and hour after hour you arc handled
over deep strawe-to improve your ac-
ton. YaU hfaatha outdoor air only in
high fenced grass raddoGks, around
which YOU are driven in surcinglo rig
ny cockncy groom imported with tho
ricSkip saddles AID British condition
powders. From tho day ynur name is
written in the StudLOok until YOU
leave yoI have balanced feed ali wool
blankets, fly nnttings and coddiing that
never ceases. Yet this is tho method
that rounds you into perfect hackney
form.
All this had been done for Bonfire
and with apparent success. bpt few
hours Of railroad travel had left him
with set OF nerves rs tonscly strung
IS those of - high school gir on grad
ua.ion day. That ~ why = draft OF
coM air had chilled him to the bono;
that is why. after reaching the Gar
den. hc had gone as limp as a cut rose
nj q ball