MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
A beautiful high-spintedt horse (pays, the New York Commercial Adrertiser), wpuld, ne,rer allow, a shoe to.be.pufc ©n, his feet. In. un, attempt- toshpe.sqGh a. horse recently, he resisted every effort kicked, aside. ev,ery t . thing, but, on apHl, and. nearly killed, himself on, that, and. fipally Has brought back to the stable, unshod. This., defect was just on the eve of qonsigning.him to the plough, wiere be might work barefoot, when, an olpcer. in our service lately, returned- from, Mexico, took a cord, apout the size of a common, bed cor4» put. in. the mouth ofthe horse like a. bit, tied, it tightly on the animal's head, passing his. left ear under, the strine, not painfully tight, but enough, to keep the ear down. and. the cord in its. place. This. done,,he patted, the horse on, the side of the head, and. commanded him to follow, and instantly the boras obeyedperfectly subdued, and as. gentla. as a, wellrtramod-dog, suffered: hisi.feet to b© handled with impunity, and acted) in all t respectsjike an old stager.. 6
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 59, 24 August 1877, Page 2
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