Horse seems irritated, or uncomfortable. Could you check the harness, maybe it is rubbing on horse somewhere ?
Later in the day the man returns to ask the saddler if he had found the problem.
Nothing wrong with the harness sir. What have you been sowing ?
Potatoes. For weeks now potatoes.
Well horse doesn’t much like potato. What do you plant for horse ?
Looking at the saddler like he was a madman and about to open a barrage of verbal abuse and accusation that he wasn’t worth his weight in the community.
The saddler proposes, take a stick in one hand and carrot in the other. Show horse, then hold them behind your back. You see what sleeve horse pulls on.
Rather put out by the remarks of the saddler, the man, after leaving quite abruptly, finds a stick and a carrot. With intent to fuss to his wife and the community about the deceit of the saddler, he shows horse both, then hides them behind his back. To the mans astonishment, horse pulls on the sleeve of the hand holding the carrot.
Perplexed, the man seeks his wife and tells her his story of the stick and the carrot. With the depth of smile that has seen him playfully smacked on his pants before. His wife replies, well, we had better plant lucerne tomorrow, Don’t you think.
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