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Show NINE SADDLES TO THE IJORSE When Thompson's colt swam the river to get a drink of water, that was thought to be about the silliest thing ever. Yet that perfoiVnance was excelled many times during the late war.' Ana it was a naiv'not a Rearing colt, tlifct broke the record. Astonishing things were done during; tht vur, many of Which doubtless, have not yet come to light-. The government's leather (head) expert, ex-pert, ordered 945,000 high grade army saddles for just 10-1,000 cavalry horses. This is about nine saddles per horse. Just why that expert figures he would need such' a back '.oad of gaddles for1 tdose horses has never been ascertained but his mental- performance clearly puts him in the sa'nie boat with Thompson's colt. See if you can solve the riddle, no one else seems able to. Again, another leather expert ordered enough harness at one time to require in their construction 300,000 more hides than the government could produce in a year's tiine. Still another expert(?) ordered six halters, hal-ters, five ,nose bogs and four covers a piece for those horses and another -one purchased four curry combs for each of the'm. But another "dollar a year" man pulled the biggest "boner" of them all. He purchased pur-chased two branding irons apiece for tho horses not ordinary steel branding irons either, but unade of copper and fearfully expensive. z z To cap the climax, another-expert ordered or-dered that the horses be brander on the hoofs,r egardless of the fact that the 'marks would grow out in a few weeks. Verily Thompson's fool colt had plenty of company. Beaver County News. ft M |