The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago by Wilson & Allen Maxwell Eds. Hudson

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Page 17 A rope is called a "tie rope" if used to "hog tie" animals by binding three legs together. A "catch rope" is used to lasso an animal. " The Spanish words also used, "mecate" or "riata," refer to the material out of which the ropes are made. A "hackamore" is a special halter for wild horses. Bridles are said sometimes to have "open reins," that is, reins not tied together, particularly if the horse is wild. Spurs are called "pet makers" when the rowels are dull, their constant pricking making the horse sluggish and indifferent to pain.

Harry H. Ransom, who graduated into something else, and Mody C. Boatright, who has left the Texas Folklore Society editorship to another, were co-editors of that Page 4 volume. In it there is a piece by Lomax on Peepy-Jenny, a mare that brought a colt every year on the Bosque County farm while working, and seemingly none of these colts were sold. She came to have quite a progeny. Lomax tells of driving wagonloads of wood to Meridian with if not Peepy-Jenny then Peepy-Jenny's descendants pulling.

In it there is a piece by Lomax on Peepy-Jenny, a mare that brought a colt every year on the Bosque County farm while working, and seemingly none of these colts were sold. She came to have quite a progeny. Lomax tells of driving wagonloads of wood to Meridian with if not Peepy-Jenny then Peepy-Jenny's descendants pulling. He always left the gate open so that all the family could accompany the wagon. They made a fine show in Meridian. His favorite horse was a son of Peepy-Jenny named Selim. When time came for him to go off to collegeand the colleges he went to were hardly of the rank of the present-day high schoolhe rode Selim to Dallas.

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