STUMBLING H0RSES

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1920, 25 October 1884, Page 4

STUMBLING HORSES

-^>-- - Tub " Live Stork Journal" contains and i interesting article on this bubjoct, ItsTys: — Sc\cii(.y immediately after .stumbling, sncli as a L'ig at the cuib, a kick in tlio stiMnaoh w ilh a spur, a stroke of the* whip, or even harsh woids, am all wionij mi piiueiplo Tne hoi si« forgets, all about the mistake he has made, but lemeinbeis the punishment inflicted. Nc\t time he stnmljl"*!, ho, CNueotnrj panishnunt, flie^ oil' tit a Undent, and may cross his logs and bumble, and cause an accident. Again when a hoise his one foie leg in trouble, he suddenly lowcis liib head, .so that for a moment the hua\y weight of the head and neck may not he boi-uc by the shouldeis and l"»s, but may be moni' i n(,u ily convcited into "falling liodies." l>>' lcheMiiL' himsdf for the iiioinont of the weight of head and neck, theie is much gic.vtoi- olunco of his tooovi-uii'; his lost 1( q in tune to {,ave\i fall. If the ndei- pi events Un^; by i^rmging at tho bit lie does, hi 1) ,1 not/to hold the hoi so up, but to pull him down. No ni.m can hold a hoi->e up, but plenty of men c.in pull one dov. n 1 should advise A Dihnii^sicn ()m to ask .i hoi s<. y fiicnd <o get for him n hoise that w.is lioin to piok up lii-. feet. A Ihii-c that Mas born to kiik &ixpeno<s will do so .ill hi.sd,i\s In ,i eonteml>'M.ny a discussion is going on about lunsc", kn King in the hunting Held, but the i'\peits wink liti'ir c\c, and hold .ilonf horn tlie disciibsion, w liidi hitter is tuned on by Ihoic \\lio know lc.ibt about tlu> sulijcct If .i hor-c habitually kicks hoiM-s oi houndb, it may be taken foi Uianhd that ho ih not in good hands The mutt's kick and ni-li, and lump on y)ii, and ollniwi^cj play the fool, no nntliM what lioi-,u they lide, and the Mjonei th.'blime lor all the.so ci lines is taken oil Ilie lioisu, and laid upon the n.an, Hie sounei will horM'-education spicad unoiigst a well inlentioned, but hoibe-ignoiaiit loiuoi unity.