MISC: The Girl who saved the world

[George Phillies]

> I momentarily remembered a peculiarity of history. There are perfectly
> adequate numbers of references, a few thousand years ago, that if you leave a
> horse with a big pile of barley it will eat itself to death. Modern horse
> breeders think horses are not that stupid.

I feel like there's a larger point to this anecdote, but I'm not sure what it is.

Almost all of my anecdotes have a larger point.

If you ask a current-day horse owner...I did...you will be told that horses given too much barley will eat themselves to death rapidly.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.eyrie.org/pipermail/racc/attachments/20161207/74cc35ec/attachment.html>