Show the rogues 21 gallary nina in Horsep tall ad no X 6 I 1 from the alie ground lie he looked reasonably low but when I 1 got into the saddle I 1 thought I 1 was in the rainbow bloom by NINA WILCOX SEE that some of the milk I 1 companies have gone go n e back to horses to draw the wagons which meet some of the best people on their way home bome not that the automobile have its good points as a cows errand boy but the horse not only v has a self starter it has a self stop per once a horse has delivered even half a pint of milk at a house he stops there of his own accord the next time he passes for years there has been a hot controversy raging between the scientists and the milk wagon drivers as to whether or not the horse did this stopping because he knew there was a customer in the building or because he was simply too darned lazy to miss a chance to rest well anyway the horse lovers will all be delighted to feel that their tour four footed friends have not been displaced but merely slightly mis laid and feel grateful to the milk companies who have not only reinstated the horse but given him rubber shoes to wear even in fine weather and quite a few notices in the papers but tor for the benefit of the younger generation who dont really know much on the subject perhaps I 1 had better explain what a horse is its the thing that statues of generals sit on you may not know the name or cr nationality of the general but you can always be sure that its a horse he is sitting on horses of myriad hues A horse is an oblong platform with supports at the four corners an outsized set of teeth in front and a whiskbroom whisk broom behind it looks as a it you could sit on it and some can others dont even try to ge get t on personally but put money on the horses instead this is an even more dangerous practice especially it if the money is put on the nose but more of that anon A horse can be one of several colors black rain spotted bay chestnut or merely dark A dark horse js is one that you thought do anything and then he does it so lar far as im concerned every horse is a dark one because only a bookie can tell you what a horse is going to do and then hes lying at present the horses ex taunt or chaunt or ex oh well I 1 mean the only horses which are arc not ex in this country today come under four headings milk cab riding an and d race up to a short while ago the cowboys out in the great open spaces where men are men with h hair a ir on their pants used horses but like the rest of civilization they now work with flivvers it must be quite a sight out there on the plains to see gee them rounding founding up a herd of wild alv flivvers vers breaking them in and all that thal however to got back on the horse for a moment which is record time lime at that the cab variety of horse is still to be lowid found in the wilder parts of our cities the wilder the part the more chance there is of people ori on an alco hollday holiday hi hirby r ing him and his driver or even acting in place of the regular driver these horses borses know life that is ii to say they never saw the country except in central park and wear their blinders on account of the white lights of broadway they are bored from having met so many prominent people and people who were merely making themselves prominent for the moment these cab horses have an average speed which ranges all the way from tw ewt 1 miles an hour downwards and ir any of them know lily langtry and diamond jim brady well to mention only a couple of celebrities I 1 its a lucky thing horses cant talk at this point we take up the racehorses well you take them up I 1 cant afford to the race horse is a far different animal from the honest though sophisticated cab horse the race horse may perform in the country but hes a city slicker just the same it is the race horse who originated the terms horse cents and horse laughs if you put your money on its nose the money generally slides off if you play the horse to show shon he generally shows you up and when you play him to place he puts you in your place streamlined horses racehorses race horses are generally streamlined models sprung for speed and with an extra gear or so bucket seats a swell varnish job and sporty looking they dont make a family model and over interest in ern em dont make a model family either but a taste for this species is guaranteed to keep both you and your pocketbook out in the open down in dear cle virginne Vir ginny and even on long island there are people who ride to hounds some even get beyond the hounds as well but not ti 0 t considered sporting these folks ride riding horses the custom of riding to hounds is an old english one and you have to be red in the coat to do it and usually end up red in the face on your back in some field when this happens well where your riding horse shows his affection for you by sitting on your chest getting you in a scissors hold patting your face with his hoofs and generally showing you where you got off would I 1 like that neigh neigh Pau pauline linel I 1 when I 1 want to go flying over fences ill get me an airplane but dont think I 1 tried riding there was a bargain sale sala of riding clothes at my favorite store and I 1 resist getting me one of those outfits that start at a derby hat and end at a pair of khaki colored bandages around the tha legs at the time I 1 realize they were bandages I 1 thought the they y were puttees put tees but in the end they held my legs together until the doctor came when I 1 put on the derby I 1 was just like al smith a all 11 ready to take a walk and I 1 wish now id had sense enough to stick to that idea but no I 1 had toe the clothes so I 1 had to have the ride I 1 got one all right horse rider start together of course I 1 must admit that 1 I asked for a horse that had never been ridden because id never ridden a horse and I 1 thought it only fair dostart even but the man said no he thought id better take a used one because bec ause I 1 have to keep under twenty five miles an hour tor for the first five hundred miles this horse had four gears bears knee action and freewheeling free freewheel wheeling wheel ling this last I 1 discovered when I 1 borrowed a bicycle to come home on en it was free and I 1 did the wheeling well anyway I 1 got the habit of standing up after meals out of the experience in tact fact I 1 also stood during meals for quite some time because the horse had no springs and he would toss me in the air and when he caught rile me again there was no give to the ed saddle from the ground he looked reasonably low but when I 1 got into tile the saddle I 1 thought I 1 was in the rainbow room boom I 1 know how to steer and his brakes needed re lining and he had different ideas frova from mine about where to go and yet the man had the nerve to charge me five dollars for the afternoon yell yeh the horse was on me all right I 1 on him long enough to even wen mention tion who was the guy who said my illy kingdom for a horse phool aj ill bat he knew that kingdom was on the verge of a revolutions a itell bell syndicate service |