Your own troubles really began in at began & rain we amount and before long the mkt erod which led straight up at a tremendously steep incline was streaming with water & as slippery as a ball room floor. We got the carts up a short way & then they could go no further. The only way was to take each one separately with two horses, it was a hard task to get the two animals to pull together. First one would jerk, & then the other & each pulling its could not move the load would near plunge & cause the devil generally. At last we got two up but the big Russian horse would not budge. The more he was pounded the less he'd do. Only back up got the cart into a worse place than ever. He is a rotten animal. He has a "yellow" streak all down his back. The moment there is a bit of hard work to do, he absolutely flies, & will not make the slightest attempt to pull his load. I hate a quarter in man or beast of this animal is a quarter clear than I. after 3 hrs of terribly hard work we got the carts all up the hill.