THE TERRORS OF HORSEMEN.
'' There, ut a curious fact connected with hdrsemansnip' that' the objects which ,are perfeqUy harmleas aiicl inqdcent in the eye of the sources of hate,and terror to'the •rider, .'jßuthers' boys 'ar'e,,not alWgother,evii|'b'ut:tothem»iioa a "0' horse they are as devils. A baby—less baby in long.white a nowspaper blown upon the wind' miriatein ; a broken leg'; a boy drbjipjiig » i basketiri therpad may be' the. beginning of the end.'.' ,Hbw hateful also are'; other, people upon otherhbraea, their cold-blooded indiffep enc'e to our safety; the idiosyncrasiesjOfiour steed,' "Vyith. what selfish they cdme bucketing past us, transforming our sheep into, a roaring, lion. And'then there'areojirfnendabri.tne payenjent,; men 'wnb l never'ndei l y , criticisms upon oneir mbjty'qf handling will ask lawn's j we ride him on ttieeurb, and if we. (jl^, not ■think.wg are not.tspoilingj his nothing -Syeate'r a gladiator "would Cjbnptram fijni,,to'Uecent' , mannyrs,«-the men wnbVlwbe,%a heart of ! learts he is amonster, oi (| oru'flty, and, wguld think nothing,' when elated with beans, of imaking'Uß : a , Bpta:ble'fof : all triairikind before ithefacoof themulti'tade'i siy'just in froh't of the-' AchiUea, l!i a'tid rt conveniently near 1 ! St. -febW^^/ft 1 " 1 ' I '-- '•' , i! ■ "•'.'' ''- lA ::,i) ; 4;.jii; '-I' I"V .!" -"'U
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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195THE TERRORS OF HORSEMEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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