. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1,1887. General Topics. I sat on the porch of the Spingler House, in New York, when there was a parade of carpenters, joiners, cabine- makers and other workers in wood who used hammers, when the landlord, an old Galifornian, John II. Cannon remarked; "There is not one of all that multitude who has not swurn many oaths and the sharpest kind of cnss words at ; Being asked to explain he replied, "Every one of them has hammered his thumb nail, the first move would be to put the injured digit in his mouth, that is
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1,1887. General Topics. I sat on the porch of the Spingler House, in New York, when there was a parade of carpenters, joiners, cabine- makers and other workers in wood who used hammers, when the landlord, an old Galifornian, John II. Cannon remarked; "There is not one of all that multitude who has not swurn many oaths and the sharpest kind of cnss words at ; Being asked to explain he replied, "Every one of them has hammered his thumb nail, the first move would be to put the injured digit in his mouth, that is after the hammer was dashed on the ground, the second to jerk his band up and down as rapidly as possible, in the mean time dancing with quicker steps than a premier jig-dancer, pouring out a volley of oaths that gives the surrounding air a cerulean ; "A man," he said, "who can strike his thumb nail a sharp blow with a hammerâespecially if it falls on tbe rootsâand does not curse, is hard to find as it is to dis- cover perpetual motion, and is altogether too good for this world. Pinching a piece of skin off in the endeavor to put together the joint of a rnsty stone pipe is about as great a provocation of words that burn, though the hammer must be given the first ; There are few in any station of life who have not had that experience or something akin to it. Few trainers of horses who have not had a toe nail mashed by the tread of a horse, or a finger nail rapped or may be bitten, so that it is unnecessary to dilate on the acute pain that follows. The coronet of a horses foot is analogous to the root of the human nail, and the wall for some distance below is equally as sensitive as mankind's horny appendages, "Gutting the quarters," must occasion intense pain, and "scalping," when the injury is where the toof and hair join, nearly if not quite as bad. It may be that a cut is not so pain- ful as a bruise, and I have seen
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