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M.J. Evans
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PINTO! Based Upon the True Story of the Longest Horseback Ride in History
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Author Insight
Laughter Really Is the Best Medicine
Research has shown that the health benefits of laughter are far-ranging. Studies have shown that laughter can help relieve pain, bring greater happiness, and even increase immunity. Unfortunately, however, many people don't get enough laughter in their lives. In fact, one study suggests that healthy children may laugh as much as 400 times per day, but adults tend to laugh only 15 times per day. As I was reading the men's journals while researching PINTO!, I realized that many of their days were not only hard but just plain boring for both man and beast. Fat really did liven up the party with his singing and kept the men laughing. So, I had Pinto tell the reader about this from his point of view! Horses probably do think laughter is weird.
Book Excerpt
PINTO! Based Upon the True Story of the Longest Horseback Ride in History
The trails can get not only tiring but boring as well. Fortunately, we had Fat along and Fat loved to sing. He sang both long and loud. He loved the songs titled, “Seein’ Nellie Home,” and “It Rained All Night the Day I Left.”
The song Fat sang most often went like this:
“There is a boarding house,
Three miles away,
Where they have ham ‘n eggs,
Three times a day;
Oh, how them boarders yell,
When they hear that dinner bell,
Oh, how them onions smell,
Three times a day.”
I heard it so many times, I have it memorized. I bounced my head in rhythm as he sang.
Fat had a way of keeping everyone laughing. Laughter is an odd sound that men make when they are happy. Horses don’t do that.
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