The Boyhood of an Inventor - Early Television Foundation

favorite lead
horse, a horse
locally rather
widely re
nowned for his
intelligence,
and always
driven with a
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'jerk" line even
in ten-horse
teams. Old
Frank came to
He would work
A "Gee-haw" jerkline team
make quite a name for himself,
closer in difficult places than any
other horse thereabouts. In hauling out of the
woods a wagon heavily loaded with logs he often
passed so near trees that his bridle would touch,
and yet would keep pulling his utmost under the
direction of a driver in whom he had confidence.
But the feat which doubtless got him the greatest
publicity was pumping water. He would take the
pump handle in his teeth and work it up and down
to pump water for himself when the drinking trough
was empty.
On more than one occasion the attention of visit
ing neighbors was called to the horse's pumping
"stunt," and more or less frequently a new pump
handle had to be provided as the horse's teeth wore
the handle in two.
The father had
always loved horses
from early man
hood, and so came
to be a locally noted
Black Beauty
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