In message . com,
"Dennis@home" writes
On 18/08/2014 08:28, "Nightjar \"cpb\""@ insert my surname here wrote:
On 17/08/2014 21:02, bert wrote:
In message , harryagain
writes
....
The horse **** is a very useful product.
Unlike the **** we get from burning fossil fuels.


Not in the quantities produced in large cities before the internal
combustion engine came along.

In 1894, a writer in The Times estimated that, within 50 years, the
streets of London would be nine feet deep in horse manure.


How would the horses get into London once the manure had got to, say, 4
feet?
With their four feet
--
bert