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CHAPTER 6

ESCAPING FOR CARROTS AND MAKING THE NEWSPAPER

The next-door neighbor would occasionally come to After carrots and going back the way I came out, I
the pasture fence, talk to us, and bring carrots. We rejoined the other horses in the pasture. The other
listened as long as the carrots lasted. The fence was four horses never caught on about how to escape
six strands of smooth wire with the wires attached or got any carrots.
to posts placed every fifty foot. The neighbor informed on me so one day
I found that one post was broken at the post was fixed and my escape route blocked
the bottom but the tight wire kept the post upright, making it necessary to wait for carrots to come to
looking strong. After testing it was obvious that if me. This was a lesson on becoming patient. You call
that post was pushed the fence would be flattened, it delayed gratification. Previously, I had almost al-
making it possible to walk on the post, stepping ways gotten what I wanted and right away, not
over the electrified wires on the post now lying on knowing it at the time, but I was learning an im-
the ground. After reaching the other side of the portant lesson which was to wait. Later when I be-
fence, stepping off the post would make the fence came a carriage horse, my partner and I would

spring back upright. After making my way to the spend a lot of our time at events standing and
house and rattling the front door someone would waiting. My destiny was unfolding, but I didn’t real-
come out with carrots. ‘ ize it.

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