How he Told.
When Coleridge was staying among the Quantock Hills, he was lond ol riding over to Taunton whenever be could find a sober steed. One day, on a familiar route, his horse east a shoe, mid he stopped at a village to have it replaced. ‘ What time is it <” he asked the smith, chiefly with the desire of making conversation. ■ I’ll tell ’co presently, sir,’ sail the man. Then he lifted a hind foot of the horse, looked across it attentively, and added, ‘ Half-past eleven.’ ‘ How do yon know ?’ asked Coleridge. ‘ Do ’ee think as I’ve. slioed horses till my life, and don’t know by sign what o'clock it is ?’ The poet went away puzzled, but be returned that evening, and offered the blacksmith a shilling to show him how to tell time by a horse's hoof. 'Just you get off your horse, sir,’ said the smith with a twinkle in his eye. ‘ Now do 'ce stoop down aud look through the whole in you ash and you’ll see the church clock 1’
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 752, 3 July 1894, Page 3
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175How he Told. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 752, 3 July 1894, Page 3
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