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A HORSE STORY OF A DIFFERENT COLOR

I’ve been one-upped, bigtime. A friend read my story Sunday about the time my horse tried to get me off his back, literally, by crouching down low to the ground and hoping I’d jump or fall off. This friend has a much wilder, more colorful crazy-horse story.

First of all, it happened in Pakistan. That’s a lot more colorful than the grassy hills around Mount Laundry, Nebraska.

Second, he didn’t fall off, either . . . but his horse ran him into the middle of a lake, and then rolled so that my friend was underwater.

He wasn’t trying to buck him off. He was trying to DROWN him off!

To save his own life, he groped around, nearly upside down, underwater, and pulled that horse’s nose down under water, too. The instant the horse realized that the crazy man in the saddle was willing to drown him WITH him, he righted himself. They swam to shore. The kicker is, they became good friends and lived happily ever after.

I bow in the presence of greatness. Far be it from me to even try to top that one. Neighhhhhhh.

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