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Azzabuv

Shipley Colliery replied on: 4/21/2005 12:24:55 AM The horse could easily have been named that, Robert, named by the Ostler when it first arrived underground. They all had individual names - David, Black Bob and Russian Sam Etc. They were all valiant heroes in their own way, each with there own little idiosyncrasies, some laughable, some not quite so. I once saw one, a white one, named David. He was a real awkward so and so to work with properly. One day he tripped, smashing his head against some broken boards, damaging his left eye considerably. Over the next few days, the talk was that he was on a week's trial to see if his sight returned in that eye. That horse heard us discussing his glue manufacturing end if his sight didn't improve. From that day on, he was an angel to work with. No wagons pulled off the rails, even in the worst sections. Before, he loved to create havoc at any and all possibilities. The final day, the Ostler and an inspector came to check him in his confined working conditions....a long, low tunnel leading to the coal face. The verdict was passed and i saw a youth cry for the first time in my life - his personal Ganger. David walked slowly out of that tunnel early, with the Ostler, head bowed, back to the stables. He KNEW the end was nigh. We never saw him again. Animals really do have souls. Those Ponies were the BEST of the BEST. Azzabuv.

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