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...best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps a half-point was scored against...
...Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep. Certainly they require very little sleep...
...instant at the field's centre. Then, as if swung off in the current of a centrifugal force, they scattered into dancing pairs, towards the field's edges, towards the goals. From time to time they returned to their paddock and other ponies took their places on the hoof-tracked turf. When the game was over, the ponies returned to their stables hungry and tired. After eating well they slept, flicking their ears at faint sounds in the pungent darkness...
...fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that...
...believe, something less than two years ago that we suggested in these olumns that if the Lampoon were going to continue to shout "present" or even "accounted for" in the ranks of the current comics, the best thing it could do was to hoof it to the nearest Liggetts and insert its savings in a tidy stock of Enos Fruit Salts or some equally efficacious cathartic...