ESSAY: THE HORSE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 17

ESSAY: THE HORSE

(More About Him Than You Ever Knew.) The horse is a noble animal with a leg at each corner and a tail hung at the back. He lives on hay and oats, and he doesn’t wear any clothes except a collar. Sometimes you see horses about the streets, but not very often, as most of them are out of work Owing to motor-buses. When I was a little girl, hundreds of years ago, we used to see them being pushed along by carts, and sometimes we would see the cart before the horse, if it was going backwards. Horses never get any wages for the work they do, and this is a shame. If they did they would be able to buy nice coats and trousers with pockets to keep their hankies in, When a horse is dead he is called cat's meat and stuck on a stick and sold for a ha’penny. d’hat is the only time he makes any money.

There is another corse, that is really a cold in the throat, and you have to suck lozenges for it. Horses never take any notice of their brothers and sisters if they meet them out, because they have no memory for faces. Besides, it would be awkward if you 'were driving a horse and he saw his aunt up the road and started off to give her a hug, and you wanted hint to go the other way, wouldn’t it? Horses are also used for drying clothes on before the kitchen fire. These are a special kind, made of bones with no meat on. Also, they have no tails. They are Manx horses, and they fold up in the middle. And that’s all there is about horses.-—Sent to the page by, “Buttercup Joe,” Carterton,