Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-05-15
What q Horse Would Say.

What . Horse Would Say.
Please to take of those close-fitting |
binders and give me chance to use
my eyes like other folks. And then,
here's this check rein. 1t pulls my head
away up in the air. 1t hurts my
mouth. 1t sometimes gives me . throat
disease. can't see the road so well
and am more likely to stumble.
l can't draw nearly SO much as l
could with my head down, and l can't
draw so easily. A tight check-rein
puts me in constant pain. Please to
kindly take of this check-rein, or
lengthen it out SO that can put my
head down where I want to when l am
going up hill.
And then we get old and feeble just
as men do, and the older We grow,
If We have worked faithfully, the more
kindly We ought to be treated. and 1t
isn't right when we have given you a
lifetime of faithful service to sci, 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 l 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 of part of the load
or get another horse, or If the wheel
is in a 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 hall
the night, and then turns us out fol
a days work next morning.
Sometimes he don't get up in time
to give us our breakfast-sometimes
he forgets to water us.
We are glad of a slice Of bread, 9
piece of apple, and dipper of water
Always feed us from the palm o.
your hand so that we may not bite YOU
fingers
When you put us up in strange
stable never trust the hostler to give
us the oats, but go out and see tina
he does it, and stand by us while w
eat them, and see that he don't forge
to water us.
Never put the bits into our mouths
in cold weather until you have frs
warmed them, so that they won't TAX,
the skin of our tongues and make /
painful to eat You wouldn't like Il
have frosty iron bits put in your moutl
on cold day.
Always warm our bits in cold wealth
er, and when from old age we can
chew, please take us to horse docto
and have our teeth fled so we can.
When you find our blankets blow
OF on cold day please put them o
again and tuck them under the hal
! ness.
= Don't keep twitching the reins whe
you drive US. You wouldn't like t
i have anybody twitching the reins a
y the time If the bit were in your moutl
u Don't over-drive us, and then on Ii
e other hand don't let us stand in Ii
q stable all day without exercise.
B. Horses and dogs need exercise e
"a cry day, and can't be well without
% You wouldn't like to be tied up in
Is stall all day and not permitted to {
s. out.
~ Please to make it a rule that "
IS will never ride in a carriage drawn
)" q horse with mutilated tail or poe
looking horse, when you can possib
IT. help it, and always look at thee chez
We rein. Always select the carriage tn
IL has the best looking horses, and t,
M the drivers why you do it.
IS Then when we get run down ,
CT should like to be sent of into the cou
rs try to take a vacation and pick up.
m II all boys and girls. every time tn
lp' see poor, miserable looking hor'
70 would simply say so the driver cou
ne hear them four words, Il pity tn
RS horse" it would be a great benefit
de us.
Nv But above all things. kindly rene
ca Der that you can do US q world OF go
RS by simply talking to us kindly-tt
ne ing us We are good fellows and
ps that.
es All We horses and dogs and Dir
I'm and all dumb animals know the ton
ed Of your voices. and we like to be Ia
ed to kindly just as we'll as you do
You can make us very happy by {
re ly talking to us kindly.
Nh. And when it becomes necessary Ii
ne We should die. don't let anybody I
es. to kill us that don't know how,
ere send to our society for the prevent
ct. of cruelty to animals, that emplc
wv. skillful men to kill horses and dc
md and cats humanely, and let them Sc
man IN kill re ynorciful1v withf