STORIES OF HORSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 14

STORIES OF HORSES

I)UKE\S OWN ANECDOTES The Duke of Gloucester has a fund of stories relating to horses not unnatural in a cavalryman. ■He ' tells h,ow a brother officer once sought, a well-known veterinary surgeon’s nd'vice regarding a hunter. “He looks well enough,” said the officer, “but he is subject to dizziness. What do you suggest ’ “Choose a moment when the horse is not dizzy, and sell .him,” was the reply; and the Duke . adds with a laugh that it was certainly excellent, if somewhat unscrupulous, advice. Another of his favorite stories is about the sale of a horse. A man advertised a horse for sale, giving as his reason that he “wanted to. leave town ; ” The horse was sold, but the purchaser was back in an hour, saying that he had been swindled, and demanding the return of his money. “I got him as far as the bridge, and fhere.i he baulked. ' Nothing in the world will get that horse over that bridge,” lie said.

“You’re quite right,” replied the seller, “find I spoke the truth in my advertisement about the horse. I said I was selling him because T wanted to leave town; and so I do, over that bridge.”