Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-07
BOYS AND GIRLS.
WHAT A HORSE WOULD SAY.

throat disease. I can't see the road c
so well and am more likely to stumble.
can't draw nearly so much as L
could with my head down, and / can't
draw so easily. A tight check-reln
puts me In constant pain. Please to
kindly take off this check rein, or
lengthen it out SO that I can put my
head down where want to when am
going up hill.
And then we get old and feeble just
as men do, and the older we grow, II
we have worked faithfully, the more
kindly we ought to be treated, and 1t
isn't right when we have given you
lifetime of faithful service to sell us
off in our old age for small sum into
the hands of hard masters.
Two men or boys the same size can't
always do the same work-nor 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
And then, there's this matter of over
loading.
If generally draw kindly, but some
day give out and stop, and tell you as
plainly as can that you have put on
too 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 vince
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 days work next morning.
s nne times he don't get up in time
/ to give u our breakfast-sometimes
he forgets to water Us.
l We are glad of slice of bread, a
3 piece of apple, and. dipper of water
Always feed us from the palm OF
your hand SO that we may not bite
: your fingers.
, When you put us up in a strange
= stable never trust the hosUler to give
a us the oats, but go out and see that he
does it, and stand by us while we eat
70 them. and Sc that he don't forget to
water US.
Never put the bits into our mouths
warmed them, so that they won't take
a the skin off our tongues and make il
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
:. weather.. and when from old age we
q can't chew, please take us to a horse
2 doctor and have our teeth filed sc
IS. that we can.
Il; When you find our blankets blown
off on cold Gay please put them OF
I'll again and tuck ti,-m under the har
ness.
Don't keep twitching the reins whel
a you drive Us. You wouldn't like t.
. have anybody twitching the reins al
oh the time if the bit were in your mouth
nd Don't over drive u.s. and then 0.
the ether hand don't let us stand i
a the stable all day without exercise.
i'd
sh. Horses and dogs need exercise eyer
zen day, and can't be we'll without il
gg- You wouldn't like to be tied up in
stall all day and not permitted to 6
tie; out.
es. Please to make it rule that 70
ot- will never ride in a carriage drawn
a a horse with mutilated tail or poo
~. looking horse, when you can possib
help it, and always look at the CHECK
GU rein. Always select the carriage tn
er. has the best looking horses, and Il
Elk the drivers why you do it.
10 Then when we get run down '
.e should like to be sent off into t.
~, country to take a vacation and pi
up.
are If all boys and girls, every time tn
!, 10 see poor, miserable looking holI
70 would simply say SO the driver cot
near them four WorCs, Il pity I'd
Dut horse" it would be great benefit
log us.
TO-. But above all things, kindly remel
lac; oei sn"' you Gan uo US q "oiiu
tern good by simply talking to US kindly
Use; telling US We are good fellows, and
pair that.
All we horses and dogs and biz
asy; and all dumb animals know the tor
nay of your voices, and we like to
80 80 talked to kindly just as well as you
5f.l5 You can make US very happy
only talking 90 Us kindly.
been And When IL becomes necesss
have that we should die, don't let any be
than try to kill US that don't know nc