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"MARSH TACKIES"
"Marsh Tackies" is the name given by the negroes to the little, wild
horses of the Carolina coast country's swamps and sea islands. Early
traditions say that these horses were found by the English when they
first came and that they are the descendants of runaways from the
Spanish settlements to the South about St. Augustine, or horses turned
loose by DeSoto upon his ill-fated march to the Mississippi. These
horses pick up a precarious living in out-of-the-way sections along the
coast, and are occasionally taken and broken in by the negroes. They are
the "poor horse trash" of the section.
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