| Show turpentine and a brick H ELLO EVERYBODY i everybody has his own recipe for adventure heres here s the favorite one of mary doner of park ave new york city take one brick and a cupful of turpentine cook the brick over a hot fire for twenty minutes pour the turpentine over it and serve does that sound appetizing well stick around a few minutes while old francois gibbons the franco fenian maestro of the skillet and the soup ladle juggles the pans around a bit and dishes you out a plateful hot from the kitchen of old lady adventures hash house and before we go any farther awant to tell you that the very aroma of this delectable dish is enough to make a horse go crazy I 1 dont know what it will do to you but heres the tale of how it affected mary doner about 10 years ago mary and her husband lived in maplewood Map lewood N J and horseback riding is a popular sport out in that neck of the woods they kept a bunch of saddle horses for their own amusement and since experienced grooms were impossible to get at the salary they them could afford to pay they were forced to employ green hands in the stable rex was a high strung thoroughbred that worked out pretty well though for what t the green stable hands lacked in knowledge and experience mary made up with her own mary was born on a ranch in california and had grown up with horses rex went crazy as the flames shot up horses were her favorite brand of animal and she spent a great deal of her time in the stable seeing that they were here well taken care of and not neglected in any way among the other horses was one rex who was the apple of marys eye he was a high strung thoroughbred but as gentle as a kitten it always grave gave me a thrill says mary to hear reas greeting every time he saw me I 1 gave him twice the care and attention that I 1 gave any of the other horses he was clever almost human in his intelligence and reas cleverness is to take an important part in our story he was kept in a large box stall and before long he learned to put his head over the top of the door and push back the bolt with his bis nose mary had to have the bolt put down at the bottom of the door to keep him from getting out wandering into the feed room and probably foundering himself remember that bolt remember that its way down at the bottom of the door out of reach of anyone inside that low set bolt caused a lot of trouble stableman bolted the door but of course that hot brick with the turpentine sauce was the principal cause of it all this is the place where the brick and the turpentine come into the story rex had a cold and try as she would mary seem to check it she called in a veterinary and he gave her some medicine for rex and another thing you might try he said is this heat a brick pour some turpentine over it and let the vapor get up his nostrils mary told the sta stableman bIeman to heat a brick he did a good job of it he brought the brick out to her red hot and mary put that brick on a shovel and went into reas stall As she went in she closed the door and the stableman bolted it the stableman had a bucket of turpentine and from the outside of the stall he poured it on the brick he poured it on with a lavish hand it was a case of too much of everything the b rick brick had been heated too hot in the first place there was too much turpentine in the second the result was startling the turpentine sizzled and filled the stall with a choking vapor rex began to get restive then suddenly the turpentine burst into flame and rex went crazy the flames shot up in the stall and so did rex he reared up on his bis hind legs and began pawing at the air and L I 1 says mary was in that stall up to that time it had seemed like a large stall to me with this fear maddened horse 15 16 hands high rearing and plunging about me it seemed no bigger than a telephone booth I 1 athe the vapor started to rise in a thick cloud and I 1 see the horse I 1 would catch glimpses of his pawing hoofs raised high in the air and would dodge away to keep out fl his bis reach but I 1 move far and the minute I 1 got in in one corner comer the plunging frantic horse would be coming my way again 1 afraid to drop red hot brick all that time mary was holding the shovel she dare set it down for the brick was red hot and the floor of the stall was covered with dry straw once the shovel with its blazing contents touched that straw the whole stable would go up in flames and why mary just duck out the stall door well there you have the bolt again As soon as the flames started shooting up the stableman had run away in panic the door remember was bolted low down on the outside and mary who is only five feet in height coulden couldn it reach down to it all she could do was hang onto that blazing 9 shovel keep it away from the straw and wait it if she was lucky t the he flames would die down eventually and rex could be quieted andia and it she lucky she might get in the way of one of reas flying hoofs then she would go down the shovel would with her the straw stra would ignite and that stable would become go a funeral pyre for some fine horses and for mary it was the toughest spot mary ever was in but all adventures come to end eventually after what seemed an eternity the stableman an back and opened the door mary was out of the sta stall U like a came streak we repeated the treatment later she says but this time tima the brick was not red hot and I 1 stayed outside the stall while the turpentine was being applied colht service |
