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Article: WHERE DRAFT HORSES PULL THEIR WEIGHT.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 27, 2001
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Byline: JON HAHN P-I COLUMNIST
HEATHER AND JOHN ERSKINE have a two-horsepower rig that doesn't go very fast, but it can go just about anywhere, haul just about anything, and gets better mileage than anything on the market.
And doesn't even need any of that emission-control stuff.
Because their two horsepower is, or are, some of the finest-looking registered Shire draft horses, named Sidney and Samantha. And they're interchangeable with any of the 10 other Shires that make the Erskines' High Bridge Shires spread outside Monroe a showplace of retro-agrarian efficiency.
John, a retired Seattle firefighter, spent time at "summer ...