It has been said that the only difference
between a fairy tale and a cowboy story is that the fairy tale begins,
"Once upon a time," and the cowboy story begins, "This is a true
story…really."
Well, this is a true story…really.
A bunch us were sitting around talking
horses prior to the famous Red Bluff Gelding Sale when John mentioned
that our good friend, Bob, could tell the age of a horse with nothing
more than a hair from the horse's tail. Being the non-believer that I am
I said , "Prove it."
So a random volunteer was selected to
fetch a hair from the tail of one of the horses that would sell later
that evening. Bob took off his wedding ring and passed the horse hair
through it. Next he grabbed the loose ends in his hands and let the
wedding ring dangle from the hair into an empty coffee cup, about an
inch below the rim. Bob rested his elbows on the table, with the hair
coming out over the top of his clenched hands.
At first, the ring did nothing and I was
unimpressed but after a few seconds it started swinging to and fro. I
looked at Bob's hands and they were not moving or swinging the ring in
any way. He was concentrating and asked for silence. Every once in a
while the ring would swing so far as to hit the edge of the cup making a
"ding" that everyone in the room could hear. After we had all counted
four dings the ring became perfectly still in the middle of the cup. Bob
announced, "the horse is a four year old."
Our messenger knew the lot number of the
horse so we looked him up in the sale catalog and guess what? The horse
was four years old!
It seems that one of the prerequisites
for being able to perform this wondrous feat is that you must also be
able to witch for water. Willard the Water Witcher was in attendance and
he tried the trick using the same horse hair and just like with Bob the
ring dinged the cup four times. But when I tried it the ring did not
even move.
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