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   Message 955 of 1,275   
   May O. Naise to All   
   Re: Horses in The Old West   
   28 May 06 07:13:43   
   
   From: eggness@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article , firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
   says...   
      
   >                       Gerald Clough   
   >    "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
   A good read from you, as usual Gerald. Thanks.   
      
   As for horses and the reasons more of them didn't   
   wear out, come up lame or die of overwork remains   
   a puzzle to me. For example: It's a wonder the   
   famous Pony Express was ever successful at all,   
   given the way the horses were run the entire way   
   and the un-tamed terrain they traveled. It's one   
   thing to see horses at full gallop in movies and   
   quite another to actually ride one that way over   
   rough - if not in fact brutal - terrain.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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