An Angry Horse
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An Angry Horse
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The horse I had was an adventure in itself and
this was a cow pony.
t was a beautiful horse to ride except that he
didn't want anybody on his back and
you couldn't get on his back. He'd come up on
his hind legs and he'd broken three guys' nose,
they didn't tell me that before they gave
me the horse and he came up and his front paws
just came down like that and hit my over,
my top coat but he didn't get my face.
Two or three guys sitting around and I said,
“How the hell do I get on this horse?”
And one thing and another and they
finally showed me the trick. You had to shove
his head around to the far side, you got on from
the left side, you had to shove him around to
the far side and pull him there and hold him
there and he couldn't then go up in the air,
you see and then when you got on the horse
and you gotta let his lines loose,
then he'd try to get rid of ya. He'd jump and buck
and kick for a minute or two and then he would
finally give up that and he would become,
he became a very good horse indeed.
He was easy to ride and easy to handle
and everything but I never got on
that horse without a battle.
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