HORSE SENSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 11

HORSE SENSE.

■Mr Frank Moss, the well-known Amerijsi, was speaking the other day of the pjjstakes some people make by being too J,4StT in their criticisms. To illustrate tbe point he told a story 0 { a farmer's horse that went nearly -jrizy the first time it saw a motor-car running near the farm. The farmer, with tie help of a passer-by, managed to pacify +jje annual. "You silly beast:"' exclaimed the passer-by, giving the horse a light smack v ith the reins. -Oh, the horse has sense enough: said the faxmer. "What he wants is experiHow would you feel if you saw tout trousers walking off down the road jritboat anything in e'rn?" A TOIfGITE TWISTER. A. genteDoe in counsel"? opening statemitso tickled the court and so effcediverted the attention of the jutt that-"a <a- ,e at onP m t ' lP f"' o3 -? 0 courts had to be adjourned the other day. It was a perfectly simple sentence, and it Bammed up the whol,- of the plaintiff's (ase. He had forwarded som<? animals from Idaho to Chicago by the Oregon ghort Line•The sheep shrunk in shipment.' dedared counsel. A juryman emiletl. -"That's funny." he murmured to hi?, neighbours. "The sheep shunk in sheepment—no, T mean tie shik fhunk in shreepment—no. you have a try."