Like it Bill but you forgot where they have to pretend to die. No
animals were hurt in the making of this film?
John
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>Date: 06/03/2018 23:56
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subj: Horses
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>Have no say
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>in whether they want
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>to appear in Westerns.
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>Directors, actors, stuntmen
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>- and women - do.
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>It’s up to them. But horses -
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>Think flooded river crossings,
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>hauling laden wagons,
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>full tilt range riding
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>Up and down mountains
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>of shifting stones. Horses,
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>called to plough on
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>in all weathers,
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>accepting with alacrity,
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>sounds of shootouts,
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>roped into collapsing
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>under cowboy weight,
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>falling from great heights
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>into raging rivers,
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>onto dusty prairies,
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>or snowy plains.
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>Whipped by stage drivers,
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>urged into burning saloons,
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>crashing through windows.
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>But without horses: pals,
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>confidantes, muscled movers,
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>where would your Western be?
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>OK, there’d still be corrals, stampedes,
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>batwing-doored saloons, robbed banks,
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>six shooters, main street gunfights.
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>But somewhere, tension must gallop.
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>Horses, salute them.
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>Hi Ho Silver!
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>bw
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