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The Ballad of Eel Horse

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Horses and the War Against the Horses

To fegue is to put a live eel up the horse's fundament. The process was called feging, or to feg a horse. There are references to this phenomenon in literary writing from the time. A forfeit is incurred by any horse dealer's servant who shall shoe a horse without feeding him first. We have falked them over for so like dogs, we're like, ye, you want to be best friends and like hunt together and hang out and we'll give you food with horses. It's your job to run towards them. Horses have taken a decent, a decent amount of abuse.

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