This man is busy saddlin’ up a skeery half broke colt.
It is too soon yet to trust him and he has to keep a holt.
He don’t know you use a blanket fer to save the hosses’ backs.
In fact right now he doesn’t know a blanket from an ax.
He gits his eyes wide open till the white around ’em shows.
He snorts! Oh man you’d ort to hear the “Rollers in his nose.”
It takes a sho’nough horseman and a level headed man
To git a colt to workin’ and to make him understand.
It makes a heap of difference in the way a hoss is broke.
He may be a first class cow hoss or a good fer nothin’ joke.
If he learns, you’ve got to use him, and you generally will find
It’s a bad thing to abuse him, but you got to make him mind.
Some people never seem to know the time and work it cost
To train some high strung colt into a smart and gentle hoss.
There’s some folks that can never git a hoss to understand,
And I think there’s cases where the horse is smarter than the man.
(Bruce Kiskaddon)
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