Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1859 — Ingenious mode of Tying Horses. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious mode of Tying Horses.

The lu'bi'mlors have a most curious custom, am! a most oUbclii il on >. of p-r -vimting [ horses from s:r.syin“, which, 1 beli. ve, is cni'irely peculiar’to this Island. T”. gentlemen, for inst ince, nre riding toga ithout attendants; and wishing to a 'igiit for the purpose ot visiting some i.lfi.•<•: al a distance Irom the road, thev i ic the lic.td o! one horse 'to the tai iof another, ami t.h head o this to the tail of the former. In tliisstat c* it is utterly impossible that they can m >ve . ither backwarils or forwards, one pulling the o::e way and the other the other: au.-l, therefore, if disposed to move at all, it will be onlv in a circle, and even then, there must be an agreement to turn; their heads the same 3 - way. J'arroic's Visit to Leland.