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CHAPTER 4 NEW CHANCE AGAIN

Several people came to look at me, mostly for another horse.
because my advertised price was low. After coming
The next day, Glenda came back with her father,
they would meet an undisciplined, poorly
Glenn. He looked me over and approved. Saying
groomed, ill-mannered, untrained, small horse something about my having a nice eye, he thought
with a twisted foot, and would go home. I showed potential and could be a nice project for

Then one day a young lady named Glenda after all, I was a Morgan. Hope returned because
that was the best thing anyone had ever said about
came. She entered the pasture with a rope in her
me.
hand. Instead of coming after me, she put a bucket
They left, and were soon back with a trail-
down on the ground in front of her. I could smell
er. My owner had said something about my unwill-
grain. Our sense of smell is very sharp an indication
ingness to get on a truck or trailer. After the truck
of that is our long noses. It has been said our sense
trips from my birth home I was terrified of being
of smell is up to ten times that of a hunting dog.
loaded onto a truck or trailer. That fear has re-
When you see us with our heads up as though we
mained with me to this day. This trailer was differ-
are looking into the distance, we are probably ent from the other trailers I had been in since it

sniffing the air. We can smell danger at a greater had open spaces at eye level on the sides. The oth-
distance than we can see. People often smell bad er trailers were all closed in, so going into them
to us and when people are afraid of us they smell was like going into a cave, which was scary.
even worse. By a sniff it was clear that this person After some papers were signed, Glenda
was not afraid. She also brought me grain. By hav- took a firm hold of my lead rope and walked confi-
ing me put my head in the pail, she prevented me dently along side of me right toward and into the

from seeing what was going on. trailer. I willingly walked along side of her. Confi-
dence can be catching. If people try to force me to
Suddenly there was a rope around my neck,
follow, naturally I resist. Following her we both
resulting in being caught. Before we left the pas-
walked right onto the trailer.
ture, she put a long rope on my halter and had me
Soon there appeared at a new home that
walk and trot in circles around her. She didn’t focus had a barn, and pastures with trees. There was
on my twisted foot but noticed my agility in spite of room to run, abundant grass and pasture mates.
that defect. Although I did not deserve it, here was yet another

She had grown up with a horse, but she had chance to be better.

sold him when she went to college but now after
finishing college, she wanted a horse again. I need-
ed a home and her father had a place in his barn

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