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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXV A HAPPY HORSE
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He cured some of her tricks in one way, and some in another.

One bad one she had was to start for the stable the minute one of the traces was unfastened when we were unharnessing.

She pulled father over once, and another time she ran the shaft of the sulky clean through the barn door.

The next time father brought her in, he got ready for her.

He twisted the lines around his hands, and the minute she began to bolt, he gave a tremendous jerk, that pulled her back upon her haunches, and shouted, 'Whoa!' It cured her, and she never started again, till he gave her the word.


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