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The Horsemen

The merchants in Rimbic, our market town, banded together to extort more money from the community. By pulling strings in the local goverment they passed a law prohibiting horses from entering the town. The reason given for the law was that the "horses are defecating in our streets and making the city folk sick." In reality the merchants were hoping to gain a monopoly on the new road that is opening between Rimbic and Shri Khola, even if it meant destabilizing our entire village economy and cheating 80 homes of their income. They also had a tax passed saying that each horseman had to pay 10rps per day per horse. This taxes would result in higher carrying fees, which would leave the village poor with less money to buy their rice. Seeing through the law I prepared a speech for the horseman's association meeting on Sunday. I felt a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach...

They gathered in the dilapidated old primary school. The meeting started and the arguments ensued about what needed to be done. The 'discussion' was reaching a feverish point and I decided to offer my opinion. I stood up to offer my speech and graciously the horsemen became silent. "First I would like to teach you a little about health. As you all know I am the health worker here in Daragaon and I would like to offer you some insight. Horse feces is one of the most benign of animal feces. It can carry tetanus but all people in the bazaar are immunized against this disease.