HORSE DOWN

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 18644, 9 March 1918, Page 4

HORSE DOWN

■'-—♦ — HOW A KHAKI SOLDIER GOT j HIM UP. i I In one of the busiest thoroughfares in tho Oity of London the other day a : horso fell down, and nothing the carter . could do Avould get •. it. upon its feet > again. For a long time the traffic was held up, and a big crowd collected. ; Whether the horso was tired or obstin- j ■ ato I cannot say:- at all! events, nobody | seemed to know Arhat to do to make it j, ge4 up. 1 wonder how you Avould haveacted under tho circumstances.. j Presently a young Australian in khaki came along, walked.up to the horse, lay I down by its head, placed dhe arm around its neck, and putting his hand under bis j mane, patted it, at the same time whis- ■ pering in its ear. This Mas extraordinary behaviour in the eyes of- that gaping - London crowd. After the soldier had caressed the horse for a little- time he touched its laoo a-nd got up—the horse getting up with him. '• If somebody in the crowd had spent ad much timo in the bush and lived as close to Nature as that young Australian, he Avould have known the"'way to set to work. But it is strange what little understanding the average' driver displays in t,he treatment of his horse, i How often one meets a jibbing horse! , but how seldom one sees any other method but the senseless one'of kicks and bad language employed to make it resume its work?—' The Warrior and LiveSaving Scout and Guard.'