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Title: How to handle and educate vicious horses
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Gleason, Oscar R. (Oscar Rudolph), 1856-
Subjects: Horses Dogs
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Co.
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nd and elevate it so as to be able to drink out of thebung-hole. He also, once, in North Dana, won a wagerof an oyster supper for a large number, by carrying aman named Harrison Barrows, weighing 225 poundsthree fourths of a mile on his back. What made thisvery hard to accomplish was the fact that the by-standers poked so much fun at them, as they sped ontheir eventful journey, that they were obliged to laughheartily all the way; yet my father offered to carry theman back to the starting-point for one hundred andfifty dollars without once letting him down, but couldget no takers. Almost every night, after a hard dayswork, with from fifteen to fifty neighbors and thosewho would come from long distances for the fun, he LIFE SKETCH. tl Would go out for coons with his dogs (of which hebought and kept the best) until long past midnight.For many years he was engaged in the palm-leaf hatbusiness, having splitting factories and bleacheries inDana, Hardwick, Greenwich, Barre, Athol, Petersham,
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CHARLES F. GLEASON, JR. and Orange. The leaf was to be found in almostevery house in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hamp-shire, and Maine, where it was braided into hats by thewomen at home. 12 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. FATHER AN EXPERT HORSEMAN. This required a large amount of riding and teaming,and my father always had from seven to twelve of thebest horses. He had on the road, all of the time, atleast fifty pedler wagons, with which the leaf was dis-tributed and the hats collected. Once, on one order,40,000 dozen hats were moved in a night from Atholto Bane. When my father heard of a runaway orvicious animal, he would go miles to buy it, claimingthat only the best horses were vicious. He went toLondonderry to buy a horse warranted to run awayand break his neck the first time he was hitched.After completing the bargain at the hotel, my father,by ringing a bell, attracted a crowd and invited themin to take something preparatory to having his neckbroken. Then, hitching the animal up, he dro

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