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5.2.26 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Realized to her story. Hour as
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  a Reminder is a reading service intended for people who
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  reminder of other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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  printed material. Today we will be reading from various books
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  about horses. Your reader today is Diane. Our first book
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  is titled Books on Horseback, The Pick, Horse Law, Variants
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  of Kentucky. It was published by Raycraft Books, a trait
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  in print and trademark of Newmark Learning. It has a
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  copyright year of twenty twenty six and the author of
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  the book is Kendess Ransome. The morning Sun has yet
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  to step over the ridge, but the book Lady is ready.
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  Her real name is Marjorie, but everyone calls her the
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  book Lady. She opens the door and clouds drift into
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  her kitchen. Fog or no, she can't be late. In
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  the warm, sweet barn, she saddles boots, packs, fifty books
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  and two strapped bags, adds napkin wrapped corn bread her lune.
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  It's Tuesday, Boots, thousand and six root, she says, Suddenly
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  on his back, people are waiting. She nudges the horse
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  into the mist. It is nineteen thirty six and times
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  are hard in America. The Great Depression closed Kentucky's coal mines,
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  putting men out of work. Isolated families have no electricity, telephones,
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  or radios. They need books to learn about the outside world,
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  to get better jobs, to pass the long dark nights.
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  Most people live far from public libraries, and few roads
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  carve the hollows and cove But with pros and Franklin
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  Roosevelt's special program, libraries will go to the people. Women
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  on horseback carrying donated books. Now, Boots treads a dry
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  creek bedcut through rocky hills. Marjorie talks to fill the
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  miles empty hands, all wanting books, more hands than books. Still,
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  we do what we can do, don't we? Boots and answer.
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  Boots left ear points to three November crows his night.
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  Ear flicks at a quick footed fox. Boots isn't Marjorie's horse.
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  She leases him from a farmer. Rider and horse aren't
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  yet sure of each other. Up sounds a shout, Book, Ladies.
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  A common eager children and their teacher wait outside Piney
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  Grove school. Hand Sloop Boots rings over the rail, stroke
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  his nose. Book, Lady, what'd you bring us? She unstraps
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  a saddle bag lifts a twine, tight stock geography, history, arithmetic,
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  the teacher list and story books. Not enough for thirty
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  hungry minds. Maybe I'll have more the next trip up
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  Stoney's slopes, down steep ravines, to the next stop at
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  the Hamlet of Thousand Sticks, young and no wait for books, hands,
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  reach for boots, bridle, handsome, vocal, heavy leather bags. Marjorie
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  dismounts to distribute books and magazines. Treasure Island just for you,
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  for you, Women's Home Companion, and here's up Creek, down
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  Creek for you. No one notices the books are shabby.
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  No one complains about tattered magazines. They are glad for
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  anything to read, glad or cast off books from cities
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  like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and New York. All afternoon, Marjorie delivers
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  books to creekside cabins and clabbered clapboard churches, hard by
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  high ivy, cloaked gradeyards, Lonesome people crave conversation as much
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  as magazines and books. Marjorie shares a rice pudding recipe
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  announces the birth of a new baby since healing wishes
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  to the and the old woman gives her a handmade
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  honeysuckle vine basket toature noon dinner. In this shadow straw
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  over wooded peaks. The horse follows dear traces. Last stop.
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  Marjorie tells Boots pawsome men. Boots droops his head. Elkhorn
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  Creek is deep this time of year. He wades through
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  water up to his hawks. On the other side, tucked
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  in a pocket hollow leaves a boy too young to
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  read and a mother too far from neighbors. Both are
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  waiting for books. Marjorie whistles to let them know she's nearby.
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  Down the hill. Mother and sonfly hand in hand book. Lady,
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  did you bring me a dog story? The boy asks,
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  same as always, not this time. Charlie will shoes for sandy.
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  Do instead? I'll read you a little bit. The boy listens,
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  but Marjorie knows his ears yearned to hear a dog story.
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  President Roosevelt's program pay her wages, but there's no funds
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  for new books, not even one story for a dog
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  loving boy. It's dusky dark when Boots plods home to
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  his haymarn. Marjorie removes his saddle, grooms his coat, feeds
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  him oats in her house. She fixes supper Tomorrow she
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  and Boots will take a different route. Two weeks will
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  pass until she rides to poss some bend again. Will
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  she find a dog book in the donation box? Before then?
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  She lights a kerosene lamp, flips through newspapers and magazines
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  to torn to too torn to circulate. One has photographs
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  of dogs. She will make Charlie a dog book. Her
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  scissors snip pictures of beagle puppies and racing collies. Her
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  brush dips into the glue pot stout stitching binds the
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  pages outside, buttermilk clouds hide the moon, a sign of
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  falling weather. Coat and sleet are coming, But a homemade
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  dog book waits for a certain boy. Next morning, icy
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  rain taps window panes, marcher covers books and protective oilcloth.
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  Then she and Boots set out down sleet slick trails,
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  between tight squeeze gaps, across rushing streams. Will anyone be waiting? Yes?
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  They stand at slippery foot bridges, under dripping arbors, beneath
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  tarp topped lean tos, all happy to see the book lady.
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  Afternoon drains into early evening, Soggy vultures sunk on rocky ledges. Possum.
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  Then she says to Boots, miles out of our way.
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  But we can do it, can they. Boots is tired.
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  One stumble could mean serious trouble for them. Both run
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  off sweeps, swirls of mud and tree limbs. Boots picks
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  a careful path. Twice she slices off to guide him.
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  At last, Elkhorn Creek, water gushes over its banks. Cross
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  here she asks Boots his ears flatten. No, the horse
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  knows best. She lets him leave. Boots walks downstream, tests
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  the depth, then plunges in. Water rises to her stirrups,
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  but no higher. He straggles up the far side bank.
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  The cabin door flings open. Book Lady Charlie cries, you're
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  not due for two weeks. His mother says, come in
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  and out of this sleet. Marjorie hands Charlie her handmade
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  book just for you. You don't have to return in
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  two weeks. It's yours for keeps. It's got dog pictures.
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  I can make up the story, and he does. While
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  the book lady drives her toes by the fire until
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  it is time to leave home. Boots, she pats his neck,
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  wet and weary. Boots aims for his hay barn at
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  a keen pace. In the morning, she'll load saddle bags,
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  place her lunch in the honeyside basket. Turner horse towards
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  bear branch. They are a team, gray Sky's part to
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  let in a slice of starlight. The mountains fall open
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  the like the pages of a book, honing them close
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  like hands. Tomorrow promises to be a fine day. Readers
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  will be waiting. Author's note. This book is based on
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  a true story of pick Horse librarians in Kentucky. Marjorie
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  and Boots are fictional characters. It's a story close to
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  my heart because books were and still are the most
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  important things to me. From my childhood home, I could
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  see the purple curves of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the
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  leading edge of the Appalachian Mountain chain, marching like elephant's
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  linked tail to trunk. My parents held from different parts
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  of the Virginia Appellations and often talked about the Great Depression.
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  For ten long, weary years from nineteen twenty nine to
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  nineteen thirty nine, banks closed, people were employed, and many
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  families struggled to put bread on the table. The deep
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  green hills of eastern Kentucky, where he had especially hard
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  steep mountains made farming difficult, but men worked in coal
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  mines or sawmills. The Depression shut down lines and logging operations.
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  Without radios, telephones, electricity, or mini roads, the people of
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  Appalachia were isolated forgotten. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected
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  president in nineteen thirty three. He vowed to put Americans
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  back to work. He set up federal programs to create
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  new jobs, such as building dams, painting murals and post offices,
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  and developing national parks. One of those projects was the
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  Kentucky pack Horse Library. Everyone Roosevelt believed had the right
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  to read. There were no public libraries in eastern Kentucky,
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  so libraries would be brought to the people. The program
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  was simple. Books and other reading materials were carried into
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  the hills by local women on horseback. The mountain libraries
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  are the monthly salary of twenty eight dollars about five
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  hundred dollars today. Out of their wages, they leased mules
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  or horses for fifty cents a week and bough to
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  the animal's food At each county seat. Books were cataloged
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  and shelved. Government funds paid the carrier's wages, but did
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  not furnish books. Librarians wrote letters to newspapers asking for donations.
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  Soon boxes of used and discarded books and outdated magazines
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  were shipped to the mountains. The first pick horse librarians
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  wrote out in the fall of nineteen forty six, saddlebags,
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  hickory baskets, even pillowcases stuffed with books to scatter community centers, churches,
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  and schools. Most often, they made deliveries to people's homes.
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  The carriers followed three or four assigned roots a week,
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  averaging eighteen miles a day five thousand miles a month.
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  Four pick horse librarians in Leslie County, for sample, traveled
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  an area bigger than Delaware to bring books to eight
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  thousand people in a single month. The women left at
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  dawn and rode in all weather sleet, snow, pouring rain,
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  blazing heat. The horses and mules played an equally important row.
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  They walked miles every day with loaded picks, following creeks
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  and animal trails over difficult, rugged terrain. When one librarian's
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  mule died, she walked her eighteen mile route. When a
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  librarian couldn't cross the rain swollen river. She spent the
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  night at someone's house. For all their hardships, the Pie
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  horsewomen wished for some books. There were never enough. Once
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  a week, the carriers met at their country headquarters to
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  men books. Often women along their routes would give them
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  a treasured family recipe or quilt pattern. The librarians pasted
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  these recipes and patterns and scrapbooks, which they also circulated.
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  Sometimes they made picture books from tattered magazines, newspapers. Bookmarks
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  cut from old Christmas cards were very popular. The Pie
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  Horse Library Project ended in nineteen forty three. America hit
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  endo World War II, the depression was finally over. During
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  the eight years of program's existence, nearly one thousand women
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  wrote through forty two Kentucky counties. Countless children learn to
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  read due to the dedication of those women who made
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  hard times a little easier. Now, when I gaze at
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  the Blue Ridge Mountains, I see the misty shapes of
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  horses with their long riders, and faintly here yonder comes
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  the book Lady. Our next book is called Anxious for
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  Horse an equestrian alphabet, and our book was published by
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  Sleeping Bear Press. It has a copyright year of two
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  thousand and four, and the author of the book is
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  Mike omer A is here to start the party. It
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  kicks off our horse fun as the first part of
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  our journey. End of horses second to none. Be they
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  at these be they arabs Ace deserve a second look.
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  A makes a great beginning for a horse and for
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  a book. Arabs At, Celtiques and and Delusions are purebred
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  horses whose origins spread around the world. They are examples
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  of horse breeds carefully manage to maintain their characteristics through generations.
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  Breeds are a fun way to classify horses, but a
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  non pure breed or great horse is just as likely
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  to be a great partner. Men and women, boys and
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  girls all over the world love horses. There are nine
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  million horses in the United States today, nine hundred thousand
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  in Canada, and as many as sixty million worldwide. Our
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  love for horses goes beyond riding. In fact, many people
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  keep horses strictly as companions. I think be It deserves
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  more credit for the places they call home are the
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  wet and darkest areas of the interdental zone. Man If
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  I spent the long sitting in the dark, and then
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  the spit. I would never ever ever say that my
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  work was just a bit. The bit is the chrome
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  or silver plated metal bar that goes in an area
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  of the mouth called the interdental zone, connected to the
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  rider by use of the reins. The bit is like
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  a telegraph that allows the rider to communicate with the horse.
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  Leg pressure and subtle shifts in body position are other
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  aids that, like the bit, keep the communication flowing between
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  horse and rider. B is also for bridle, the apparatus
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  that fits over the horse and holds the bit. Bridles
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  can include a brow band, cheek piece, noseband, curb chain,
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  and throat latch. A bridle without a bit system is
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  often called a hackamore. See the clatter of hoofs in
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  the swish of a tail was the sound of the
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  law on the old Western Trail. Sees for cavalry and
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  the armies of men who jumped on their horses when
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  trouble began. Stands for Canada and the mounted police who
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  brought law and order to the ranges and streets. Our
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  frontier was settler institutes in force from a spot in
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  the settle on the back of a horse. The horse
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  was instrumental in settling and bringing law in order to
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  the Western United States and Western Canada. Canada's Northwest Mounted
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  Police were formed in eighteen seventy three and would later
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  be renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Founded by Stephen
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  austin eighteen twenty three, the Texas Rangers would evolve into
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  an elite crime fighting organization. See also stands for Commanche,
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  one of the most famous horses in American history. Commanche
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  was the only US Army survivor of the massacre at
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  Little Big Horn in eighteen seventy six. He would outlive
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  the man who rode him, Captain Miles Keeled by fifteen years.
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  Traveler and Little Cyrill were nearly as well known as
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  the Confederate generals who rode them, Robert E. Lee and
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  Stonewall Jackson. D is for the word direction. This might
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  come as a surprise. You can make your own selection
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  by the way you use your eyes. Where you look
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  is where you're heading. Horses know how this is done,
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  so when you look where you are going, no, you're
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  not the only one. One of the most things a
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  new rider has to remember is to look where he
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  wants to go, not down at the horse. A horse
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  takes cues from everything the rider does. That's why it's
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  so important to look past your horse's ears. The slight
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  changes in rain pressure and body position that come when
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  you move your head toward your target is often all
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  a sensitive horse needs to deduce where you want to go.
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  Imagine if your mom could hear each word you say
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  from far to near, she'll have to ears just like
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  your nose, one pointing south, one heading north, and every
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  unkind word you said would laying you in trouble and
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  up to bed each day, would carry fear and dread
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  if mom had horse ears on her head. Horses have
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  much better hearing than we do, and sometimes our starter
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  bove things we do not notice. Ears are also a
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  great indicator of how a horse is feeling. They are
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  forward the horse is eager or interested. Ears pinned back
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  usually mean a horse is anxious or angry. One ear
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  forward and back shows divided attention. When you lift to rain,
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  Notice how the horse flexes his ear on the same
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  side you picked up. Your horse is using his ears
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  to indicate he is noticing what you have done. F
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  Here's the question I burden with. Why are ferriers all
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  called smith It seems to happen all the time, without
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  a reason, without a rhyme. On Sundays and vacation time,
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  their own last name will work just fine, But come
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  Monday morning, at the stroke of six, everyone starts to
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  call them smith. The farrier trimps your horses hoofs and
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  apply shoes. Most horse people use the word blacksmith as
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  well as ferrier, hence the use of the word smith
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  or smitty for the farrier. Like our finger and toenails,
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  horse hoofs grow continually depending on the time of the year.
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  A horse to be clipped or re shot every four
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  to six weeks, and that means at least a dozen
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  shoe changes a year. Remember the horse owner's creed dough
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  no hoof, no horse. G denotes the place that's best
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  for putting bad horse habits to rest. G means ground
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  and groundwork can make better partners between horse and man.
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  If you want to ride, not battles, start on the
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  ground and end in the saddle. If you try things
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  the other way around, don't be surprised when trouble's found.
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  A line lying is a great way to exercise your horse.
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  Many pleasure horses aren't worked enough to stay in excellent condition.
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  Longing helps rein force commands and opens up the lines
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  of communication between the horse and rider before she gets
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  in the saddle. Veteran horse people consider a ground manner
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  as sensual quality in a horse. A horse with good
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  ground manners ties easily. He doesn't intrude on his handler
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  space when he is being walked or handled inside the
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  stall or pad up. A horse with good ground manners
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  does not resist having his halter put on or being
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  put in cross ties, and lifts his hook for cleaning.
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  H Imagine a line your horse can't see, but she
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  always knows it's there. It shows what she's allowed to
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  do and when and how and where and when it
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  comes to horse and rider, there's a line your horse
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  can't cross. There must be a belief insider in this herd.
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  You are the boss. Horses are herd animals. Despite thousands
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  of years of domestication, horses retain the instincts they needed
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  to survive in the wild long before the relationship began
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  with man. In every herd, there is a boss. Your
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  horse needs you to be the herd boss. That means
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  you must build his respect for you by following through
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  on commands and riding him properly. The horse fills you
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  are a poor herd boss. He will try to take
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  the job for himself. The result will be a poor
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  and even unsafe right and frustration for both horse and rider.
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  H only stands for hands. Eight hands is how horse
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  is measured, and adult horse that is fourteen hands high
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  is considered small. Draft breeds can go higher than seventeen
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  hands high. I eye is for the words in harness.
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  They denote the special breeds born for pulling in for flying.
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  They once rolled the streets and fields. Be they Clyde Steals,
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  be they sh Shires, be they Frisons or Cleveland Bays.
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  They hauled milk and helped fight fires. They were the
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  engines of the own days, replaced over the years by
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  gas and diesel engines. Harness horses are still treasured by
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  collectors and by scattered groups of small land owners all
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  over the world. Because of their great strength and willingness
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  to work. These horses are known as heavy horses or
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  working horses. The most common harness horse today is the
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  standard bread, the mainstay of the sport of harness racing.
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  Standard breads are divided between pacers who move in a
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  lateral gait and trotters who move their legs in a
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  diagonal direction. Jay they're judges scattered across the nation, all
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  export experts and horse confirmation. They're judges for your horses walk.
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  They judge the canter, post and trot. They're judges for
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  color and breed. They'll guide you on the proper lead.
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  They're judges for each show and ring. They're judges for
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  judging everything. Judging horses is like judging beauty contests, only
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  with more legs to study. In halter class, competitors bring
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  their horses to be appraised by judges who study confirmation,
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  or how the horse is put together. Is a horse
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  over at the knee? Are its feeds flat or its
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  legs set too far out? In dressage, judges know how
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  well horse and rider combined for subtle movements inside a
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  rectangular ring. Hunt seat judges monitor a rider's equination or
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  positioning as they compete over jumps or in a flat
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  classes that don't involve jumps, Judges in the hunter's classes
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  grade a horse's form as it jumps over fences. Okay,
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  I've got a tool to catch a bot. If I
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  knew what they were, I catch a lot. I've got
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  a bag from a horse this till I've just the
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  tool for horse shoe nails. I've got elastics for their braids.
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  If I don't have it, it's not been made. KA
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  is for my bright red kit. I wonder what I
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  did with it. You can't have a horse without a kit.
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  The kit contains curry combs to loosen dirt and hair
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  and removes lice eggs. Bought knives are just to remove
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  bot fly eggs. A dainty brush and a body brush
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  bring the coat to a knife shine. You also need
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  a pick to clean the horses hoofs. Grooming helps you
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  get close to your horse and gives you a chance
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  to look for any cuts or injuries. Hey also stands
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  for the Kentucky Derby, the most prestigious thoroughbred horse race
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  in the world. The Derby, the Belmont Steaks in New
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  York State, and the Priakness in Baltimore, Maryland make up
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  racing's triple crown. Lex and Kentucky is home of the
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  world famous Kentucky Horse Park. The park attracts eight hundred
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  thousand visitors a year, and it's the final resting place
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  of one of the greatest of all thoroughbreds the Great
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  man O War. With their spectacular athleticism and competitiveness, Thoroughbreds
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  have long dominated many forms of racing. Hell, if you
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  know your two point stance, if you favor writing boots,
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  if you know job perrs or pants, if you know
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  a horn won't too If you keep your reings just right,
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  not too loose, and not too tight, if you know
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  each single gait, I'd say your lessons are up to date.
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  L is for lessons, and horse lessons are the very
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  best way to keep the horse writer relationship running smoothly.
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  Riding a horse correctly is one of the hardest things
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  in sport. It takes great body control, instincts, and most
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  of all, practice. Instruction and coaching will help any writer
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  at any level develop. Writers working at the highest level
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  of the sports still consult regularly with coaches. El's also
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  for left. Most horse people mount and dismount and tack
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  up a horse from the left side. The traditions believed
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  to date back to when knights rode on horseback. The
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  sword attached to the knight of his left tip was
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  less cumbersome if he mounted the horse on the left
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  hand side. We will finish this story next time. This
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  concludes the children's story I have for today. Please join
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  us next time as we will read more stories, fables
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  and fairy tales. Thank you for listening. Please stay tuned
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