The writer in the Household Words article

The writer in the Household Words article

The writer in the Household Words article

The writer in the Household Words article, to which I have already referred, tells how a coachman in Kent, who had been quite mastered by horses, called in the assistance of a professed whisperer. After his ghostly course the horses had the worst of it for two months, when their ill-humour returned, and the coachman himself immediately darkened his stable, and held what he termed a little conversation with them, which kept them placid till two more months had passed. He did not seem altogether to approve of the system, and plainly confessed that it was cruel. Putting shot in the ear is an old stupid and fatal trick of ignorant carters to cure a gibbing horse it cures and kills him too.