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Post by tintin on Sept 29, 2022 15:03:46 GMT 1
Last night a friend of mine was given a beautiful drawing of a horse for her birthday. I said to her she would have to give him a name, she asked me to. As her friend Richard was having a birthday too we decided to call the horse "Dick"
I suddenly remembered a horse called Dickie Bird who was a bay hunter, but I can't for the life of me remember where I knew him from. Thought it might be a horse my Dad knew, but no.
I am thinking of writing about him, but have a feeling he might be from a book
He belongs to a father and son and was the son's first horse as opposed to ponies. Dickie got his name as the father asked the boy to name him and he called him Dickie Bird, because he was, "brown like a bird". Father wanted to say, "but they are all brown", but refrained out of politeness.
Dickie is a bright horse and when master calls "Dickie Bird, Dickie Bird" he knows his name and sticks his head out of his door
He lives in a white stables with red and black doors opening out on a concrete path outdoors for four horses, but there is only him. Father has independent means, but not a farmer. I think there are just the two of them, can't remember any ladies in Dickie's life which is unusual. They live in the country and do normal horsey things - hack, hunt and a little showing
Surely if he was a horse in my life, even in a friend's re-collections I'd have remembered where? Surely I can't have imagined all this up from nothing?
Does anyone remember him from a book?
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Post by Claire on Mar 7, 2023 21:34:11 GMT 1
Hi Tintin I somehow missed this post from a while back. I can't recall a Dickie Bird but my memory is pretty awful. I'm bumping the thread to see if anyone else recalls the name.
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