Judge — May 18, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Barring such mishaps as mice getting at it, ete. this article will be in your hands some time in May when horseback riding will be on the up and up or up and off, Had it not been for Cyrus Saddle there would be no horseback riding in America today, for he intro duced the horse and invented the so-called saddle, and even if you were riding some other animal now “Don't you feel giddy up there?” shouted a friend. adays you'd be riding bareback, which would not only be uncomfortable but embarrassing. It was away back when Cyrus came to this coun- try with a horse named Osear (the Saddle horse, people called it) which was known as a colt because it was pretty well shot by the time it landed. The trouble was, they didn't have any oats on board and they had to feed it all kinds of truck until it was called a truck horse a passengers. It was « dray horse by a little girl Effie who used to say, “Look and it was called a rocking horse when the weather was rough, and a saw horse be- cause the passengers looked at it all day, ete., but that’s not what I'm trying to get at. f Once in this country, the “Sad- dle horse” was the object of much curiosity on the part of visitors to the Saddle home, but Cyrus was at a loss to know what to do with the animal until a sarcastic friend dray big horsie “My horse's sted he “shoot, stuff, and snorted Cyrus. History of the Saddle Horse Printed Matter by Gurney Williams Comical Drawings by George Lichtenstein got the heaves,” mount the silly specimen.” Cy- rus didn't want to shoot Oscar, but one day in the presence of a couple of friends he did stuff Oscar full of oats and then mount him, intending » for a He kept falling off, however, until he hit upon the plan of tying a chair upon the horse’s back. As he Oscar and Cyrus arrive at Hoboken. fastened the first chair with a strap he said, “This will be a cinch"—and sure cnough it was, and has been ever since. Cyrus was hoisted into his ” as it was laughingly termed and then things began to happen. “Don't you feel giddy up ther sked one of his friends; but at the words “giddy up” Oscar was off like a flash. It seems one of the men had stuck a pin in Oscar's flanks and gotten his gall up,” as Cyrus afterwards explained it. This, of course ounts for the present “gallop.” Anyway, it was a wild ride and when Cyrus and Oscar returned—Osear was first by ten minutes— Cyrus was most enthusiastic. Well, after a lot of this kind of horseplay Oscar became obstinate and refused to budge, so the men had to employ trickery. The most successful idle seat” method of starting the horse to tie a carrot on a string ¢ wiggle it in front of his nose. This subterfuge worked and became known as “putting the carrot be- fore the horse” —a phrase that you will undoubtedly recog: or later. ize sooner From then on horses became all the rage. People kept them in barns because Cyrus said a house with wide doors was the best place, and after two fellows by the name of Cladius Carriage and Kenneth Cab invented their famous vehicles the popularity of horses knew no bounds. Well, that’s all there is to the story and I'm sorrel if you're dis- appointed in it; but if you 4 it’s your roan fault for reading it, and 1 guess saddle hold you. barn none comicbooks.com