Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1838-09-06

that also, and down the back stairs to where
we started from. II was some time aforc he
broke in the second door. and then he foller-
ed us down, lookin' like a proper fool. III
pay you up for this said he to me. hope
so, said ], and lchabod too. A pretty time
o. day this when folks can tore and race over
decent mans house, and smash all aiore
him this way for nothin,' aint it Them
doors you broke all TO pieces will come To
somethin,' you may depend-n joke is a joke.
but that's no joke. Artcr that he took his
time, searched the cellar, upper rooms, lower
ROOMS, and garrett, and found noihih' to seize
hc was all cut up, and omazin' vexed, and
put out. Says !, friend, if you want to catch
weasel you must catch him asleep now
IT, you want to catch me asmugglin,' rise con-
siderable airly in the mornin,' will you p
This story made Ichabod's fortin' almost he
had smuggled goods to sell for three years,
aud yet no one could find him in the act or
tell where onder the sun he hid 'em away to.
At last the secret leaked out, nnd fairly
broke up smugglin' on the whole Shore
That story has done more nor twenty officers
that's a fact.
There's nothin' Almost, said the Clockma-
kcr, like so much as to see folks cheat
themselves. don't know as ever cheated
a man myself in my life ] like TO do things
above board bandsum,' and 90 strait ahead !;
hut il chap seems bent on chcatin' himself
] like to be neighborly and help him do it,
| mind once, when was to the eastward of
Halifax atradin,' bought young horse to
use while gave old Clay run to grass.
do that most every fall, and it does tic poor
old cri,ter deal of good. lie kinder seems
To take new lease every time, it sets him
up so. Well, he was n most Il special horse,
but he had intarDal temper, and il required
all my knowledge OF horse flesh to manage
him. He'd kick, sulk, back, bite, refuse to
draw, or run away, gist as he took the notion.
mastered him, but it was gst as much as
bargain too, and don't believe, tho I say it
myself, there is any other gentleman in the
province could have managed him but my
self We'll. there was parson livin' down
there that took great tarcy TO that horse
Whenever he seed me adrivin' by he always
siopt To look at his action and gait, and admi-
red him amazin'Iy. Thinks to myself that
man is inokilated-it III break out soon-hc
Is dctalnincd to cheat himself, and if he is,
there is no help for il, ns see, but to let him.
One day was adrivin' out at q most ducc
OF size, and he stopped me. Halo says
he, Mr. Slick, where are you agoin' in such n
desperate hurry? want to speak n word
10 you. So pulls up short. Mornn,' says
parson, how do yon 60 TO day? That's
very clever horse Of your'n,snys he. Midd'in'
says he does my work, but he's nothin' to
brag on; he amt gist equal to old Clay, and
] doubt IT there's "A blue nose horse that is
either. Fine action that horse, said he
Well, says |, people do says he has consid-
erab!e fine action, but that's better for him
self than me, t4r II makes him travel easier
La no in flt., han =
Wcll says |, IT he has mind To and is well
managed, he can do fifteen handsuln.' viii
you sell him: said he. Wei, said Z. parson,
] would sell ham, but not to you the truth is
SAID !, smllin, ! have n regard for ministers;
the best friend ever had was one, the Rev.
Joshua Hope well, of Sickvillc, and wouldn't
sell II horse to one didn't think would sui,
him. On said he the horse would suit mc
exactly like him amazinly what's your
price? Fifty pounds to any body else, said
+; bu, fifty five TO you, parson, for | don't
want You 10 have him at no price. If he
didn't suit you, people wonld say cheated
you, and cheatin' parson is, IN my mind.
pretty much of piece with robbln' Of n
church Folks would think consider. bic
hard of me sellln' you n horse that warn't
quite the thing. aud shouldn't blame them
one norsel if they did. Why, what's the
mitter of him said he. Wei, says !, minis
Ter, says !, lariin' right ont. everything is
the matter of him. Oh. said he, that's all
nonsense I've seen the horse in your hands
often, aud desire no better. Well says ],
he will run away with you ifhc gets chance
10 a sartdiniy. will drive him with a curb,
said he. lie will kick, says ]. III put back
strap on him, SAID hc. lie will go backwards
faster than forwards, said |. | will give him
The whip aud teach him better, says hc.-
Well, says | Iariin' like any thing, he won'i
go at all som times. III take my chance of
iha', said h. but you mus take off that five
pounds. We'll, says |, parson, don't want
Ia sell yon the horsc-thats fact but it
YOU mast have hun suppose you must, and
| wl.substract the five pounds on one condi-
.tlon, and that is, If you don't like tho beast
you tell folks that You would have him, tho
tried TO sci him out as bad rs could, and
said every tlrag of him ] could lay my
tongue To. Well says he, the horse is mine.
and If he don't suit me, acqut you Of all
blame.
Well he took the horse, and cracked and
boasted most prodigiously Of him; he said
he wouldn't like To take n hundred pounds
for him that he liked to buy horse Of q
Yankee, for they were such capital judges Of
horse hesh thcy hardIy ever Almost had Dad
one, and that he knew he was agoin' to get
irst-clior one, the moment he found didnt
want to sell him, and that he never saw n
man so loath to part with beast. oh dear
how larfed in my sleeve when hcerd tell
Of the goney talkin' such nonsense: thinks
], he'll live to larn yet some things that amt
writ down in Latin aforc he dics, or I'm mis
takened-that's all. In the course Of a few
days the horse began to find he'd changed
hands, and he thought he'd changed owners,
aud he tlought he'd try what sort o stuff his
new master was made on so lie gst took
the Bit in his mouth one fine mornin' and ran
off with him, and kicked his gig all to film
ders, and nearly broke the parsons neck !;
and findin' that answer he took to all his old
tricks ag'in, and got worse than ever. lie
couldn't do nothn' with him,--cven the helps
were frightened out Of their lives to 90 into
the stable to him.
SO lie come to me one day lookin' quite
strcaked, and says he, Mr. Slick, that horse
bought Of you is perfect divi; never saw
such n critter in my life; can neither ride
him nor drive him. lie gist does what he
pleases with US, and we can't help ourselves
nohow. lie actlly beats oil the onruly ami
mails I over seed in INV life We'll. saws l.