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City slicker rides a horse

A city slicker goes out to the country wanting to have a horse ride. He has no experience so asks for a well trained horse. He is given a horse with the following instructions: the make the horse walk say “phew”, to make it run say “yeah” and to make it stop, say “stop”. Sounding easy the man says “phew” and heads off on the horse. After a short time feeling confident he call out “yeah” and the horse starts to run. Enjoying himself he yells out “yeah” several times. With the horse racing along he realizes he is approaching a cliff. In a panic forgetting how to stop he calls out “woah” but to no avail. Finally he calls to the heavens “please make this horse stop”. The horse stops right on the edge of the cliff. Relieved the man wipes his brow… “Phew”