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Show To Start a Balky Horse. Tlie account of a dilver's brutality to a balking horse In a recent Issue leads no to write ou tho 'o'lnwlng Somo jears ago in Cincinnati during dur-ing tho noon hour In one of the busiest busi-est streets, a horse attached 'o an express ex-press wagon became balk) Many remedies weie tried without ofTect Piescutly one ot Cincinnati's best known horsemen camo nlong. When ho saw the trouble ho smilingly asked ask-ed for n stone, which ns given to hltn. Then ho asked tho driver to lift up nno i ot ot the hoi so and with tho stone he struck the shoo n number num-ber of times "Now," ho said to thn driver, "get up on jour seat and drlvo off." 1' This tho drlier did, amid cheers of the bystandeis. Tho horseman said ho had no Idea why this made a balk) horse go, but ho hud found It an 'in falling lemedy Letter In New York Times. |
