{"id":316,"date":"2015-02-08T01:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2015-04-09T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T03:11:31","slug":"dugout-good-old-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"DUGOUT                         a good old horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlcy and Dugout<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150206_153737-640x480-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-314\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150206_153737-640x480-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20150206_153737 (640x480) (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150206_153737-640x480-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150206_153737-640x480-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dugout was a good old horse.\u00a0 I later wondered why anyone would name a horse Dugout, but as a child I never questioned the origin of his name.\u00a0 I was so thrilled to have a horse that his name was not significant.<\/p>\n<p>Dugout was a strawberry roan gelding. \u00a0He had been my brother&#8217;s horse.\u00a0\u00a0I was a preschooler when my brother, Carroll Williams, graduated from high school.\u00a0 The horse was sold to a family for their son.\u00a0 The boy grew up, and my Dad bought Dugout back when I was in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>I rode the gentle horse around and around the area of the house and barns.\u00a0 I watched as he was caught and saddled.\u00a0 I helped brush him when he was unsaddled.\u00a0 I was too small to heft the saddle up onto his back.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually grew to a size where I could saddle him alone.\u00a0 I was told that if I wanted to ride, I also had to catch him.\u00a0\u00a0 This was a challenge for me as long as we had him.\u00a0 It looked easy when my brother or my Dad walked right up to him, but it was not so easy for me.\u00a0 That old horse had me figured out.\u00a0 I would approach slowly, talking to him in a soothing voice.\u00a0 He would stand still and never take his eyes off me.\u00a0 When I would get about 5 feet from him, he would whirl and go to the other side of the pen.\u00a0 I would start over.\u00a0 I tried holding the bridle behind my back so he could not see it and approaching with a treat in the other hand.\u00a0 That didn\u2019t work. \u00a0This game went on\u00a0until he got tired of it.\u00a0 When I was about ready to give up, he would lower his head and let me slip the bridle on. \u00a0I think he really liked playing the game.\u00a0 I would saddle him and away we would go.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Highway 183 was in front of the dairy.\u00a0 It had wide shoulders and wide flat bar (barrow) ditches.\u00a0 When I got older, I was allowed to ride along the fence in the bar ditch.\u00a0 I did not cross the highway.\u00a0 My usual route was to ride about one-half mile to a cross road and return home.\u00a0 Occasionally I rode further or turned and rode on the gravel road.<\/p>\n<p>I was given safety instructions. \u00a0I do not remember a car ever stopping or anyone trying to talk to me.\u00a0 A car might give a beep as it passed or someone might wave.\u00a0 The neighbors to the south were known to me and they would wave.\u00a0 I was told that if a car ever stopped, I was to \u201chigh tail it&#8221; \u00a0back home.<\/p>\n<p>I also knew that my Dad frowned on my galloping the old horse.\u00a0 I was to ride for pleasure, not to see how fast the horse could run.\u00a0 I was not allowed to have a riding crop or quirt.\u00a0 I would leave the driveway at a walk or trot and wait until I was out of sight.\u00a0 Then I would give Dugout a kick in the flanks.\u00a0 I also discovered that the ends of the reins would work like a quirt when slapped across his rear.\u00a0 He could fly along at a fast clip and seemed to enjoy it.\u00a0 When I got within sight of the driveway on the return, I would slow again.\u00a0 Do I think that I fooled my Dad or brother?\u00a0 I doubt that I did.<\/p>\n<p>After Dugout decided that we had ridden long enough, he totally ignored whatever I wanted him to do and walked to the barn.\u00a0 He would put his head against the feed room door and would not budge.\u00a0 My heels would dig into his flanks and I would yank on the reins to turn his head.\u00a0 It was to no avail.\u00a0 I would dismount, turn him and walk away from the barn, remount and we would go again until he decided he was ready for the party to be over.\u00a0 We came to an understanding as I got older and he stopped that game.<\/p>\n<p>Dugout had a bad habit.\u00a0 He could jump over the pasture fences.\u00a0 My mother had a large vegetable garden.\u00a0 That seemed to be the only place he wanted to go.\u00a0 If he got caught in the garden and someone called to him or he saw someone coming, he would either jump over the fence back into the pasture or start walking toward a gate.\u00a0 He was not a dummy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150206_153332-640x480-400x300-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-315\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150206_153332-640x480-400x300-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20150206_153332 (640x480) (400x300) (300x225)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>my saddle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I rode less and less when I was in high school and Dugout went to another home when I was in college.\u00a0 My saddle hung in the barn until Ken and I retrieved it for our children.\u00a0 It was hanging in Ken\u2019s workshop in Georgetown in 1987 when there was a fire in the shop.\u00a0 The saddle was badly scorched.\u00a0 A local saddle maker brought it back to the present condition.\u00a0 I still have it.\u00a0 I may be the only old lady you know who has her childhood saddle on a stand in her bedroom.\u00a0 The saddle you can glimpse under it belonged to Ken\u2019s Dad.\u00a0 He was a Shriner and it was his parade saddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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