The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
What to Do When IN
Danger IN a Runaway
Sit Tight Keep Yoor Moth Shot and frost IN the Lord
Never JUmp, YoU VIII Be InjUred, Probably
Killed, If You Do.
BY P. E. STAFFORD,
Horseman for Forty Years.

you can certainly grab hold of some
thing, thus preventing your being hurl-
ed through the air, or breaking your
fall. Then, too, with the vehicle over
turned the average horse either slows
up or stops altogether, in either of
which events it will be an easy matter
for you to clear yourself of the vehicle
before the beast takes 1t into his head
to renew his flight. or for someone to
be at his head to check him. The
chances that you will suffer being drag
ged along in an overturned vehicle are
very remote indeed.
To the woman / say, for Gods sake
never jump! Such a course is infinite
ly more perilous for her than man. 1t
is very nearly suicidal.
Woman is so encountered, about her
legs with her clothes that, even with
the horse going at a comparatively easy
gait, her skirts would surely trip her
when she ran forward in the effort to
keep her feet, and it is this falling head
forward to the ground that causes
fractured skulls, the force being so
great that the arms. though they are
thrust forward in an instructive effort
to protect the head, are little or no pro-
faction.
Again. the odds are very heavy that
the woman, in an effort to jump, would
get her skirts caught in a wheel. l
have known this to occur many times.
But would take care that my skirts
were gathered up" you say. That is
what a friend of mine told me ten years
ago. A week later her skirt caught in
a wheel, she was dragged for the length
of several city squares along a country
road, and when she was finally released
she had received fractured skull from
which she died, and her body was a
mass of bruises from head to foot.
No woman can gather her skirts so
Carefully as to remove the probability
of their catching in the whirling spokes.
The highest touch of the cloth on the
wheel, and the mischief is done.
Keep Your Mouth shut.
sit tight, everybody. Also keep your
mouth shut.
The average man shouts wildly, and
the average woman screams hysteri-
cally when in a runaway. Both meth
DDS are equally pernicious. Your cries
only tend to excite the horse further,
and to make him run the harder Your
open mouth, in its effect on the horse,
is on a par with the wildly swung
hat of a citizen with good inten-
lions who rushes out In the roadway
when a runaway happens his way.
Then, too, the more you shout or
scream the more excited you become,
and the first thing you'll be doing is
what you should never do-jumping.
Keep your mouth shut, not only
when the horse Is running away, but
also keep Il pretty well shut when q
horse is FESTIVE. A calm, cool voice
Is the commanding voice, calling forth
obedience In man and beast alike. A
quiet, though commanding, tone has
prevented more than one runaway,
while voice with rising excitement
IN Il has melted many a horse, through
malice or fright. 20 take the BIT in his
teeth and run for II.
gt tight and keep your mouth shut.
Then you viii undoubtedly keep cool,
and 20 YOU viii be able 70 PIT INTO
practice these few more SPECIFIC rules
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