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Show A REAL "HOSB" nACE. Country Fair the Place to. See It at Its Best. If you would see n horso strapped, strap-ped, booted, braced and geared to the limit, you must seek such a track as you seo at tho old-tlmo country fair. Hero comes an awkward awk-ward llea-blttcn gray, which never went under 2 -BO In his life. He Is hobbled and checked and goggled, and hitched up sldewlso, lengthwise and crossulso until there Is moro harness har-ness than horse. You wonder how his driver ever got hlin Into this rigging, rig-ging, and how he will get him out nnnln without cutting him freo with n "Jitckknlfu. A fnrmer with u pray beard and twinkling eyo ob-senes ob-senes to his neighbor; "Last time John Martin had that plug out i the road I told him ho had tho old crlpplo overloaded with fust-alda to-thc-lnjiired. Them ntrnps that was cal'lated to hoist up his knees must ha' pulled too tight and tho critter was yanked clean off the ground. What John was gcttln' ready for was n racn for fljln' machines, ma-chines, not a hosu trot." From "Tho Country rnlr," by David Lansing, In Outing. |