The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1907-11-14

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horse trainer-he must have been a
new one-who, among other things,
afted out the statement that the
horse possesses neither initiative
memory nor gratitude" remarked a
veteran animal man in charge of the
horses Of show that passed through
Washington recently.
Maybe that chap meant the carpen-
ter's horse-he must have. He
couldn't be a horse trainer and have
made that kind Of crack about the
sure enough live horse.
Down in Athens, Ca, the other
day, a little thing happened that prov
ed, II, II needed to be proved, that the
horse sure does possess all three OF
the traits which this maybe horse
trainer said the horse lacked.
"One Of our old time draught
horses-he's been touring with cir
cuses 80 long that he liked the taste
OF the left over pink lemonade-had
wrenched his shoulder in an uphill
pull in South Carolina a couple OF
weeks before, and he was still on the
hospital list when we struck Athens.
His driver, hard nut that we picked
up somewhere out in Kansas, had
passed up the sleeps that were com
ing TO him to take care of the injured
horse. applying liniments and hot
cloths to the old nag's torn shoulder,
and, In his grufi way, petting and
soothing the suffering old beast.
while the afternoon show was on
in Athens the driver got in to mix
up with a soused tentman It was a
pretty hot fist thing between the two.
with hOnors about even, both being
hard. knotty men. Then the GONZALES
cent old horse got in, and In less than
minute there was nothing 70 1t. The
old draughter was haltered to the
back Of a wagon, munching, and the
scrap wasn't more than ten feet away
from him. He was used to scraps,
and when It began he raised his head
to look 1t over in an idle sort Of way.
but the instant that he saw his
driver and pal, the hard man from
Kansas, who had been nursing his bad
shoulder, was one OF the mixers, he
got busy. He broke the halter strap
with one jerk Of his head, bounded
over to where the punchfest was com.
ing OF, wheeled around so as to get
his heels to it. and then he deposited
as swift a brace OF heels right in the
pit Of the stomach Of the man hitting
at his nurse as you'd want to see.
"The man went down like a salt
cod, but even then it was all that a
half dozen Of the hands could do to
keep the angry old horse from savag-
lug the fallen man with his teeth and
fore feet. And he's an old horse at
that, that was never before known to
use his heels in the way Of a buck. A
few minutes later he was beaming
upon his driver pal and Tipping and
HIS hickory shirt. They were
sure enough pals, those two. We had
to leave the man that he kicked ia
the Athens hospital I guess maybe
that old work horse didn't show, that
afternoon that he possessed initiative
memory. and gratitude.
III there's any one thing that all
animals, Wild and domestic, from the
weasel to the white elephants have
got it's memory. Not all OF them
are grateful But they all remember.
Their memory works in different ways.
The cats, for example, remember
an injury a great deal longer than |
they do a kindness. All cats are re-
and they've got to have mem
cries TO be that One injury inflicted !
by a keeper viii cause a cat-lion.
tiger. leopard, panther--to forget |
years OF Kindness and care on the part |
Of the keeper. Instead Of being sui
fclently grateful for past kindness to
call the account square after the in
jury the cat passes up the remem-
brance Of all Of the kindness and de-
cIdes to get hunk for the one injury.
1--WE had case Of that kind in our /
show not long ago. The boss eat
man was breaking in new cat hand !
who aspired to be an exhibition cage |
trainer. The new man accidentally |
clicked the big leopard, which he was
trying to get the training mastery Of.
in the eye with his whip.
~The leopard hoped him and was
about to claw him apart when the boss |
cat man, who was outside the cage. |
stuck pair Of red hot pole irons !
through the cage bars and let the snaF-
ling leopard have them IN about half !
a dozen parts Of his hide at once.
The leopard curled up at that and
sneaked to q corner Of his cage. while |