SOME HORSE.
A New Plymouth resident ha? a horse which has been made a great pet. and* in consequence is full of crafty tricks. At gate opening the horse defies all the ordinary fixtures, and will work away at any device until he finds a solution. A few days ago the horse observed a baby about four years old sitting in a box eating a biscuit. This is a dainty that the animal love.v and without hurting the child's hand it promptly annexed the biscuit and devoured it. He liked the taste so well that he investigated for more. Carefully taking the child's dress in his teeth he lifted the baby from the box, anc'i was rewarded by more biscuits in the bottom of the box. The child's mother placed a box behind a gate, and, giving the baby more biscuits, proceeded with her duties. It was not long before the horse had the gate opened, and the performance of lifting out the child and searching for biscuits was repeated without trouble or harm. On another occasion the house cat was lapping some milk from a saucer on the verandah. The horse promptly put its hc-ad over the railings, gently removed" the cat with its teeth on to the ground, auci " conferred. th<- milk to its own
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Otaki Mail, 6 October 1922, Page 3
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217SOME HORSE. Otaki Mail, 6 October 1922, Page 3
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