COUNT THE TIMES A HORSE ROLLS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7201, 12 September 1901, Page 2

COUNT THE TIMES A HORSE ROLLS

«fc*fc *- — To see a; horse when out atpaature rolling on. the ground' and! endeavouring to tunover on ihis back is a common sight 5 bufc _ow many people have noticed that an dbing t'h'i* horse, observe an invariable rule? The ru-e is that h_ alway* rolls over either ab the firet or -third attempt— never at the second — and 1 iniore than three attempts are never made. In other word_, if the horse succeeds, in rolling over at the first try, well and goooV-tihat satisfies him. Bufc if the first attempt is a failure, tihe -*oond one always is. Then fhe either rolls quite at .the third try or gives it up. He never makes a fourth.' If horses are rolling on aloping" ground they usually roil uphill. This ie more eaay of explanation.' than the strange custom regulating the number of attempts; aa to thia, no adequate reason haa eve. been offered. Will those ingenious people who tell ua why a dog turns .ouudi before lying down, and why dfucks: walk heihind each other in a string instead! of abreast, explain why a horse never makes four attempts' to roll over, and never «ruccee<& at the second?