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O one, I’m sure, was more thankful to see: the metal on the road than our horses. No more heavy pulls in mid-winter. No more cold waits at the corner till the car turned up. Less work all round and more peace. I’m always sorry that our old draught mare, Susan, didn’t live to see that day. I’m sure she’d have managed to celebrate it somehow, for, if ever a horse was_ sick of cars, it was Susan. I don’t blame her either. She knew all about them and her lower lip used to droop a little more after each pull. She’d had many experiences with cars and they had. given her a deep scorn for _ motorists... There was the man whose horn went wrong while she was pulling him out-it needed nerves as strong as Susan’s to stand that ceaseless blast just behind her. Then there was a little episode for which I was responsible. Susan was towing our car around the paddock after its winter rest, to induce it to start, when it did start-and rather too suddenly. We were going down hill and everything happened at once and I was too paralysed to put the brake on quickly. Susan ended up very nearly sitting on the bonnet like an outsize mascot-("Our Animal Friends: Horses to the Rescue," by Mrs. Mary Scott, 3YA, December 26.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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229Ask Susan New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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