The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-06-02
PERVERTED APPETITE
Of SOME HORSES
One Ate Raw 5ee Another
Garbage, While a Third
G7ewed Tobacco.
4 TROOPERS EXPERIENCE
Curing His Long Service in che Reg
Via Army 4e Has Run Across
Some Queer Freaks in she
Equine Race,

Forest md SGrear1 Mr.. Hardy gave
an Instance 9f a horse which ate cook
"a beef. l nave In mind some three
different horses wlich mag ne said 40
haze l6a = perverted appetite. one. a
small la.f-6reI Texan, would eat j.
fresh piece Of heaG as large IS a dinner
yi4to and 4Gi lGcG -HSC}I, He ate {. LIsr
AS i dog woulI, holding Il down HEth
his -aret2of, a@&l earring or oaHahs 0s
III aI}a swallowing gGeEG. LlGEE aorsa,
sttGL had Tor = Few lHGEGsa &nUe-
EftE -0r fresh IesC HvZS SO well kElJgvH
CllIt none Of 6 saa ever lsaa within
his EeagG except by accident. When
r. was whoever taf- It, levar saw <
aggia. E4lG rCaaE t-.lE ( lrsc served In
had horse char +.ad III II when re was.
tWsAt F-tasa@ 9ays old, Seventeen of
those year" ne had put n wl1a The
troop. alJs@G IF -EeEG under me saddle.
Eie had beer sagl several times. GuCe
through she neck and ora in the flank.
but neither shot lad se3c MIN TO gLe
rear. ts never mad r-sn sick Il day.
Survived Custer M~asszcre.
The last Two years 5t Ma life he spent
on Lhe retired LIST, buG was Still marked
fit for fIJy in order 70 keep him there;
any 5t2ar horse WouId nave been cor
demned and shot; but ne vas kept as
n matter OF sentiment and a moth
ing TO do but ear and sleep. The only
other horse that 7 ever knew to be
treated this way was the one which
survived The Cuater massacre; he was
kept IN q troop N the Seventh cavalry
Iatil he died. He was sad6Ied III and
led 7ut in every mounted inspection,
but was never ridden by any one.
This old 1orse Of ours eve called him
SuEnEnerl was never tied in the day
tine, nut let go where ne pleased. He
paid regular visits 10 the ~cookhouse;
arc n 80 - 49,
rel, ne would half empty the barrel.
Il aid not seem 70 make any difference
70 hi!l what he found L~hera-bean SOUP,
stale bread, cooked meat or potato par
ing5-all Went. He did not need the
stuff he got Just what the other horses
got 70 ear twice g day.
Mares Seldom Used.
Soon after the close Of the var wei
we're -t&srl0uEced at Macon, ca, aadi
sent 70 Texas, Here we got the oIdt
horses b the Eighteenth New York
had 0ae1 riding, Z I kept i lockout
for \ sogrei, but the best ( could get
was q small sorrel mare. Mares are
never used 10 -i1Ga IT peace, nat Tor -.-e
.GSt four years before this anything
mat eoUiI carry q saddle would be
Used We na1 .a-cA Ut these mares BY
the TINE We ware all mounted. Tnev
Ead 2eeH 'Gap+LseC 6owu south; none
Of them had 5enu bought. nv mare
JUST suited u1a, she could carry ne fifty
miles & day, then carry me back aEa!a
next daT II I wanted ha- to 10 it.
had har about tVvo days when 7 found
out that il ChaTved tobacco. She
grabbed 3 small package Of tgecut 0lr
Of my hand, and then stood chewing Il,
paper and all. Seeing that It did not
1CrC her, kept ler IN tobacco. buying
The leaf tobacco that ali these Mexican
stores sold here then, a large hand
OF It for L silver dime; thai would not
have paid the duty on II had Il been
paid, but The collector had not got here
yet. When he did come these men had
10 stop selling II at any price. I never
weEr near my mare without giving hey
tobacco II she did not gst 1t right
away she would begin showing ne With
her nose and keep It up until + gave her
the usual chew. When we we're or
tered 70 turn IN our mares a few
months atrer his parted with her
with more regret TIA I have since 5elt
IN parting with a better horse than she
was.
/ rode 4 horse fur four years. my race
morse Charley, which would eat half 4
Geek OF peaches az fast as [ could ra-
move The stones out OF them. The
same horse could eat y pound Of SUGAR
~ candy without even stopping.