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Frighten the horses

2011-01-04 03:33:19.773585+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Interesting parallel that came up in conversation today. Mrs. Patrick Campbell is famous for saying:

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

And in that same era, in the early days of the automobile, red flag laws existed to keep automobiles from scaring horses.

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