[BITList] A HORSE

[HUGH]

Colin, Rab,

The horse is made of a kind of metal lacework, very nicely done, and it's not its fault it's been dragged into this debate. I gather a real horse (name unknown) fell into the water in a local shipyard in the 1880s, and drowned, and we are asked to make a leap of the imagination and see this as the event that links it all together.

This, Rab, was before Wan Fittit's time and, in any case, Lobey Dosser, as you well know, was the Sheriff of Calton Creek, Arizona, where all the inhabitants were emigrants from Pertick.  Wasn't the horse called Elfie?

The only link I can see between the industries and the horse was that, even up to the early 50s, horses and carts (4-wheeled flat and 2-wheeled carts) carried a lot of stuff around the place. I recall plates from the railway being hauled siding down to the shipyards, and carts full of scrap going the opposite way, with a trace horse for the really heavy stuff. As a gate boy, 1948-49, I weighed them in and out.  But I don't reckon that's what the council have in in mind - I doubt if they know that's the way it was.

Hugh.
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