Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — WHEN THE HORSE WONT PULL [ARTICLE]

WHEN THE HORSE WONT PULL

Giving a Team a Tow is Not So Com* mon in Summer as in Winter. Winter ia the time when moat commonly one driver helps out another, when the going is bad with heavy snow, bat such help may also be extended in summer occasionally, when the going is all right, and a team has been exhausted by the heat This waa such a case, but it had complications. Here was a small double truck with a load that weighed perhaps a ton. scarcely more than that and a pair of horses not the best pair in town, but a team that could easily haul the load; but now here was this team halted, while ahead a driver was turning the horses of his truck back to the truck that was halted, to give that truck a life, an unusual sight for the season. What-was the matter? Why couldn’t that team with a comparatively light load on get away with it without help? The explanation was simple. One of the horses in the stalled team has a mind of his own. You couldn’t call him a balky horse, nor is he jx horse that lies down on the job, and yet there comes times when he won’t pull, and when you can’t make him, as on a day and in a place like this. On a hot hard day when he gets hot and sweaty and tired be may make up his mind to stop for a time and then he does stop and you can’t start him. He wants a rest and he insists on taking it, but when he has rested that way for 10 or 15 minutes he’ll put his neak into the collar again and go on. He had stopped like this and the place where he had now stopped was a little up grade, but this time he didn’t stop .as .long, .as usual .for this is a tolerable busy locality and pretty soon the traffic policeman got the outfit moving. He commandeered a passing truck and got the truckman to give the stalled truck a line, and when the line had been made fast and the towing truck started up both horses of the stalled team started pulling too. “It’s a hot day,’’ said the traffic policeman, “but It’s not a heavy load. They’ll take it along all right when you get 'em up on the level."