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OLD WEST SURREY 



In the old clays bullock-teams were used for ploughing 

 and other farm work, as they are to this day in parts of 

 Sussex. Sometimes an old bullock-shoe is turned up in 

 ploughing. They are like half horse-shoes, divided to suit 



Ploughman Bringing Home the Horses 



the divided hoof, and widened to the back like the right- 

 hand horse-shoo in the picture. 



I have often wondered what may have been the origin 

 of some of the curious words, or rather sounds, by which 

 the carter communicates with his horses. ' Woh ' for 

 ' stop ' is familiar to us all. For going forward the word 

 of command is ' pull up ' ; this is intelligible, though the 

 words as uttered can hardly be recognised, but the 

 alternatives ' Gee-whee ' or ' Gee-whut-ah,' or the still more 



