Evening star., 1932-07-10

loose of the object when an open hand is held
out to him so he can drop the thing into it,
I'VE usually wrap the handle of a revolver
in tape so that the horse will have a soft sur
face to bite into If he is to hold the weapon
The tape doesn't show but If it did wouldn't
let Tony risk his fine teeth on solid steel.
1--WE had Tony for IL years. Bought him
when he was a year-old colt, and if all
goes as it should he'll live to be 80. Marvellous
horse Best horse in the business. And cost
$3.50.
'I was walking along in Phoenix Ariz, one
doy when 1 saw a mare with a nursing colt
working at hauling.
"Lookahere' I said to the man who was
driving her, that poor thing can't deliver
vegetables and nurse a colt
He just shrugged his shoulders and started
on I ran after him and offered to buy the
colt I didn't have much money and $3.50
was as high as I could go, but he took it. He
probably thought the colt wasn't worth much.
I'VE fooled him, Tony and T.
THE sort of horse you can train to do diff
hcult tricks-one with what call the trick
strain in him-will live to be 80 years. The
ordinary horse is liable to die at g. Tony is
a Steel Rust horse, Spanish strain, and his
ancestry goes back to the time of Cortez.
They trained horses back in the days of
Alexander the Great did you know that? Dur
ing his reign every boy was taught all about
horses Good for em. Ought to be true now.
There's lots of things people don't know
about horses that everybody who is going to
fool with animals ought to know.
Say you going to swim a river on
horses back It's like riding a log. You
must balance your horse as soon as he's OF
his feet in water. just as you'd balance oi-
cycle because the horse with load on his
back has a tendency to tilt to one side against
the current and If he's allowed to slip over
on his side he'll drown. So If he slips one way,
you balance the other.
Then take fire:
THE average person who tries to rescue a
stable fun of horses will rush in all excited;
cut an animals halter, hit him hard to drive
him out and hurry on to the next horse. Does
the animal go? He does not. His stall is his
home and he feels safe there. He doesn't like
noise and excitement; he's afraid of fire
engines and sirens and crowds. He'll stay in
his stall II he burns
1.-THE way to do the trick is to act as If
the stable wasn't on fire and go through
the same procedure you'd use If you were
taking the horse out for exercise. You go in.
unite the halter. If he wears one, and lead him
out the way he's used to going.
mo horse hesitates to follow a man he
trusts. That's why movie horses will go
through smoke and fire when they're directed
to do It, If friend tells them it's all right.
Take no chances safety first is my
motto when dealing with horses. Maybe you
can't believe it after seeing my pictures. but
every time we do difficult feat I've got 1t all
figured out before we start"
Failing to fall feet first was the cause Of
Tarzan's nearest escape from death
Ken Maynard making picture III
Montana The action called for a leap from
a 60-foot cliff into lake and swim to the
opposite shore Technicians had rigged up
wooden runway at the top Of the cliff, arguing
that this would help Tarzan to clear the ba1tk
and run no risk of striking shallow water.
Tarzan, bearing Ken on his back, galloped
at full speed to the runway: at the end, Tar
zan slipped on the newly planed boards. turned
over in midair and landed in the water with
Ken underneath. They went down about 80
feet, and when they came to the top, separately,
Tarzan was so terrified that he tried TO climb
on top of Ken, who evaded him and swan to
shore.
"A /HEN Ken reached the near shore he looked
w back to see Tarzan carrying out his pic
ture instructions and swimming for the farther
one. Arrived there, the animal spied Ken and
Immediately swan back, feat that still seems
impossible to his master. When Tarzan reached
the shallow, water near Ken, he dropped ~
his knees and nestled his head in Ken's arms