Show A Kay Steers Kick Our hightlycsteemed contemporary CoT Henry Watterson says the New York Sun with that enlightened curiosity ivliuh is the mark of a large and expansive expan-sive mind asks us to explain the peculiarities pecu-liarities of a bay steers kick Is there anything that differentiates the kick of a bay steer from that of any other color and if so what 1 In calcitration are three degrees To kick to kick like a steer to kick like a bay steer The positive degree of calci tratiou is indefinitely expressed by the first A higher more forcible and in every way more impressive variety of calcitration is expressed in the happily descriptive similie to kick like asteer For the steer is or at least was before the mule had come into general culture a symbol of striking and impetuous calci tration Any steer kicksrrefractorily but the bay steer kicks with a heartiness an intensity of crural propulsion a putting iif f his whole soul into his hoofs that dis unprishcs him from nonbay steers VAven the Hon George Frisbie Hoar Kicks mgainst an appointment he always ticks like a bay steer It is his nature If it be asked why the bay steer has gifts above those of its fellows the answer must be that it is its nature Perhaps its temperament is more choleric perhaps its temper subtly influenced by its coloring color-ing matter Tis held that redhaired persons are fiercer more choleric and more sudden in a quarrel than the flaxen haired or the inkhaired and perhaps the bay steer is the victim or beneficiary of its color Certain it is that the bay steer symbolizes kicking of extraordinary pcnius and vivacity and moreover in Kentucky their number is great and their power enormous |