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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-27, Page 7Horses, Horses The French supreme court has just decreed that race horses and farm horses are the same thing—specifically, that: a man paying off Wagers at the race track windowis an agricultural laborer and comes " under the Ministry of Agriculture. This decision has not proved popular with the men at the' windows, whohoped,' to find themselves in a better paying category, but it shows how judges can embrace about anything and retain their aplomb. I noticed. the Associated Press made the • obvious remark—that a los of race fans felt they had detected plow -horse mannerisms in losing favorites, but it re- • mains for me to point out the opposite. I have always been aghast at the way farm horses, every time I am around, think they are race horses. They get to thinking like these French judges,' and become absurd. We did have one horse who really was a race horse, He had been famous in his time, but that was years long gone by. No- body -could" remember just what records he once held, but every- body agreed he'd held some. We swapped.a small load of late hay for him, thinking he'd be good for raking hay and cultivating. He lounged around, mostly, and the hardest work he ever did for us was, pull the track fork rope when we ran hay up in the mows. But he never forgot his former fame, and reminded us of it whenever, he could. Somebody said once this horse might make a fair saddle horse. Here in Maine we went more for buggies, and riding on top was left to the society folks, but We did have an old McClellan saddle in the tie-up. It may have belonged to the original McClel- lan. I h'isted it on the horse one afternoon when I was in an ex- perimental mood, and climbed aboard. I`was younger then This horse turned his head and looked up at me with with- ering scorn. ' I glared back with equally unfeigned disadmira- tinn, which is as good a way to handle a horse as there. is. We ilius spent some time glaring, r iter which he put his head c.pwn and began eating. Then I• t; rew gently back on the reins, clucking gently, trying to pre- vail upon .him with the gentle- r •sss and tenderness so much s zcommended . by the great horsemen of the world. I spoke t.o him and appealed to his bet - t tr nature, if any. Then I pulled harder on the r ins, and as my determination increased I had him so he looked if his mouth was split clear I 'ck to his withers, and he kept eating as unconcerned as a 1 an on eggs. Some horses are said to be "strong in the mouth" '1 his one was strong clear back I'+ his tail. And, you know, it is c ridiculous thing to be all ac- t catered for a canter, and just SA up there while your horse Laishes his dinner. So I climbed down, where- upon the horse picked up his head, snorted, and struck off for a fine fun up the road. He was gone about four hours, saddle and all. The next day a small boy down the road came up and tried him, and the horse turned gut to be a Rine saddle horse for small boys. The small boy rode him for years, but whenever I went near him he thought he was one of those French judges. We had a respectable old horse named Joe who had grown Old in • the service and was as ,reliable as the sun. He always worked as nigh horse of a team, so whenever we hitched him • into a pung orbuggy he would pull to the left. He had a way of crossing directly in front of any- body we were meeting on the road, and this manufactured some confusion every time it happened. No matter how many times it hadoccurred, you were always somewhat unready for it, and as MAN OF WAR -I -Gazing fondly at one of his favorite pipes, Gen. Chaim Laskov, newly appointed Israeli army chief of staff, is pictured in his home town in Tel Aviv. Born its Russia, -39 -year- old Laskiv moved to Israel in 1925. During World War 11, from 1941 to 1946, he served in the =British army androse to the rank of major, As successor to Gen. Moshe Dayan as Israel's top fighting'man, Laskov will probably have less time fdr his hobbies—collecting pipes and daggers. you jerked on the line to bring Joe back, he - would suddenly entertain , the . Musical that .he was a race: horse. Joe had feet like bushel baskets, and he would rattle them off down the road, tossing gravel, covering the next mile in about 1:57.25. Then he would be done, and he would stand in his tracks and • rest with much care, leaning against the atmosphere and storing. No power controlled by man could make him move un- til he had rested. Once he stop- ped just below the schoolhouse, and while he rested I went in the bushes and picked seven quarts of blueberries, Then we had Lizzie, a mat- ronly mare who thought she was a race horse if you backed her up. You could 'go forwards with her forever and she was safe and clever, but if you pulled on the lines and aid, "Back up Liz!" you were in for it. She'd throw caution to the winds, close her eyes so her ears were pulled • forward, hump up like a catapult, and back at full tilt. We couldn't break her of it. When we put her in the fills, we had to have the wagon back- ed against the barn to take up the shock, and: she would come back against the wiffletrees and make the barn boon like a drum You could slow her down some by guiding her from the bridle, but as lcng as we had her nobody ever learned to dp this. Before you thought, you'd say, "Back, Liz!" and your neck would snap like the end of a snake whip, and you'd have kerosene all over the flour, and mustard on the molasses jug, and all the people around the village wondering what you were trying to do. The French supreme court is a couple of generations too late to qualify poor Liz, wrong end to, .for the Preakness. My unclehad a horse he'd trained to go like the wind if you _ :lied "whoa," and to stop only if you said "giddy-ap." Uncle was an interesting fel- low. He loaned this horse to a friend who wanted to take the schoolteacher on a picnic, and shortly after they left the cou- ple were seen going, through Sabattl.s at race -track momen- tum, both calling whoa with much purpose, but no effect. The romance was delayed, but my uncle felt he had been richly repaid for his trouble. He en- joyed that. I think the French supreme court would have laughed too. At least in those days. I don't know about now, after this. decision,. — By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. HE'S FOR THE BIRDS -Baltimore Oriole scout Del Wilbur, right, points to the dotted line where 18 -year-old Dave Nicholson signs' for a bonus rumored to be in the vicinity of $110,000. For a week the. lire -up at 'the door of the St. Louis outfield prospect looked like a roster of the .majors' representatives. Only Detroit failed to make an offer to the 217 -pound youth. Right -Hand Man When it was announced, just before Christmas, that the tip- staff of the High Court of Eng- land was ordered to Scotland to make an arrest, millions of peo- ple must have asked: "What is a tipstaff and what does he do?" The office of tipstaff has exist- ed for centuries in Britain, FIe is an official appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and his main job is to arrest hnd escort to jail those guilty of contempt of court. A former tipstaff once went into action after a disgruntled appellant in the Court of Appeal had suddenly begun to hurt to- matoes at the presiding judges. The mars was seized and the tip- staff escorted him to prison to serve a six weeks' sentence for contempt. The tipstaff's symbol of offi c is a black ebony staff about a foot long, silver -mounted at both ends and with a silver band in the middle. There's a legend that in the old days the staff was longer and when the tipstaff led the judges on ceremonial occa- sions it was his duty "to tip people out of the way" with it. The tipstaff is really a con- • stable of the High Court and you can usually see him with his staff at London's Lord Mayor's Show or on the day the legal year begins (October 12th) when he marches at the head of the judges' procession, , brilliantly decked in gold lace. - Feet Were Missing After wondering about it for centuries, -Swedish authorities last month dug` up a sixteenth- century royal murder mystery and put it underthe glare of twentieth-century science. The riddles -Did King Eric XIV die, as some historians claim, of arsenic in his pea soup, or as others say, was he smothered by a pillow, or drained bloodless by a connivirsg doctor? A chance to sort fact from legend came when heavy-duty equipment was brought in to re- pair Vasteras Cathedral where Eric was entombed. Using cranes, workmen wrenchedoff the 2 -ton marble slab over the King's sarcophague while a Cab- inet minister, a bishop, and other 'dignitaries looked on. Thirteen scientists stood by to --put the remains through mod- ern X-ray and chemical tests. The Swedes hoped scientists could prove conclusively wheth- er Eric had been done in. There were plenty of possible reasons. Was it because of the periods of Insanity that occurred during his ,tumultuous ,eight-year reign? Or was ,the plot inspired by the fact that Eric had offended his brothers 'by marrying a lowly, born mistress (her father was a corporal) whom he met one day while she was out shopping': for cabbages in the market'' place? The historical and personal facts were that'Eric spoke Latin,,. French, and German; he loved wine, women, and lute playing. He 'distrusted noblemen and once threatened to;send 'his bro- ther John's wife off to Ivan the, Terrible in Russia , after John h a d unsuccessfully revolted against him. 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