Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-10-06

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A horse with disned race Is fooi
one Win a Roman nose is rogue
No man should attempt TO deal in
horses unless he can walk once arounc
an animal and then tell all about it.
The horseraan Is porn.-' said tn,
major, as he seated himselr upon tins
rear step of his -carryail," "but hs
must spend years among horses be
/ fore he can read them as ordinary
people read books Now. see thai
woman driving her big. fat, lazy morse
over there. she has her buggy load
ed with children and breakfast foods
and millinery and umbrellas and
things, and she Is driving with tnt
lines in her teeth. for she mas 10 use
her hands TO keep the kids and gro
ceries from falling out or the wagon
IL you went over to her and toid her
that her horse is unsafe. and she is
bound to have horrible accident
some day. she would throw some
shredded prunes at you. But that &C
cident is coming. my friend. The
poor woman's horse, which seems SC
safe. is feeble minded. Look at its
Hopping ears, its drowsy eyes, its
slobbering mouth and dropping UNI
der lip. Anything unusual is apt to
scare that fool horse and then it will
go up in the air. and upset things. and
smash all the store fronts in town. and
kin everybody within block. Wo-
men never viii learn that a highlifted
horse with good sense is far safer, un-
der any circumstances. than the Junk
headed brutes which seem safe merely
bocausc they are lazy.
do I ever set the worst OF any
trade? That seems q ve-- absurd
question. There is no man in the
world who knows so much about
horses that his Judgment is infallibie.
/ believe that 1 can size r7 a horse
about as correctly and as speedily as
anybody But horses have so many
possibilities in the way OF disease and
bIemish and inffrmity of body or dis
position that when you buy or trade
you are always taking chances to a
certain extent. 1 like to get done up.
I have a profound admiration for the
man who is a sufficiently graceful liar
to leave grandpa gaspIns. II acts as
sort of stimulant, and 1 at once be-
gin laying plans to get even, and /
generally make good. And If the other
fellow is dead game sport, the exer-
else is quite as exciting as big deal
in Wall street.
Many years ago 1 made one of my
periodical visits to Seneca, Kas. a
county fair was in progress, and all
the nired men were in town burning
money, and the farmers and their
wives had all their bulls and crazy
quilts and colts and chickens on exhi-
bition. All, me! Those were the
grand old days for the horse trader.
Every man and boy had his own
horse. People used saddles then. Po-
MES were cheap, being driven over
land from Texas. and the ordinary
Kansan citizen felt himself everlast-
ingly disgraced if anybody saw him
on foot Why. the boys and girls on
the farms used to carry zwfil to the
hogs on horseback and when farmers
had to grease their windmills they
rode their bronchos right up the tow
er. When a farmers wife had to kill
a chicken for dinner she'd get on a
horse and run it down.
well, maybe my imagination was
getting away with me a trihe, but
really, those were the haIcyon days
of horse trading. I speak OF the early
'70s. PONIES were cheap as dirt. and
good horses as valuable as gold mines.
So, when a silver-tongued orator man
aged to trade Texas pony for an
American horse and draw a rev bones
as boot, he naturanyEIeIr mar ms TIsu
not lived in vain. Bur wzS~Eonig to
tell you true story. Things were
moving pretty rapidly at Seneca dur
ing that gala season and was can