Posted on 06/04/2023 9:37:50 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date’s post brings us back to one of our regular wells, James Kelly’s Gallows Speeches From Eighteenth-Century Ireland … and the days when a life was cheaper than a horse.
The three men hanged together on this date all concurred in their stories that only one of them stole the horses in question and the other two merely thumbed rides on his extra mounts as passing travellers. Whether or not this is true or was simply their common play for a potential ⅔ pardon posterity obviously has no way of determining......
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when a life was cheaper than a horse.
Exactly. That phrase is pretty disingenuous.
Did the horse have no name?
…it felt good to be out of the rain!
Well, in the desert, you can’t remember your name
https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/jackbell/Jack-Bell-Prospector-and-Naturalist-39.htm#thief
Confessions of a Horse Thief by Jack Bell, 1905
“The horses were life. When you stole a horse you stole their life.”
When you’re out in the middle of nowhere and your horse is stolen, you will likely die.
They should’ve bought EV’s. You know, Save the Planet and such.
They had electric horses in ‘Westworld’
And an electric Yul Brynner.
He had a bad acid trip though.
He lose face...
It was not that life was xheaper than a horse.
Stealing a horse from someone while “out and about”, could very well be a death sentence for that person. Horses were THE personal transportation vehicles of people, so it is on the level of carjacking. Often taken under threat of being shot if they didn’t steal them at night, which would be a violent confrontation at night to stop them.
“The horses were life. When you stole a horse you stole their life.”
They really shouldn’t comment on something they obviously have NO CLUE about.
Hanging a horse thief after you got the horse back may have been the law but indenturing the thief to the victim until he’d worked off the value of the horse might have been more satisfactory all around.
"I couldn't possibly fit him in until Monday, sir. I'm booked solid."
Surprise!!!
The next one is a doozy!
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