The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-03-21
THE JOCKIED FRENCHMAN.
4 HUMOROUS SKETCH OF PURCHASING /
HORSE.

HORSE.
A Frenchman, in this country, who was
unacquainted with horse-jockies or horse
flesh, was grievously taken in, by q cheat,
in the purchase of steed. He gave one
hundred dollars for miserable jade of an
old mare, tha, had been !attened up TO sell;
and she turned out to be ring-boned, sPav-
ened, blind, and wInd-broken. The French
man pretty sooa discovered that he had
been used up in trade, and went TO request
the jockey to take back the animal, and re-
fund the money.
Sare,' said he, ave fetch back de
mare-horse vat you sell me, and l van, de
money in my pocket back
Your pocket back = returned the jock
ey, feigning surprise, Il don't understand
you
You no stand under me = exclaimed the
Frenchman, beginning to gesticulate furi-
ously; 'you not stand under me !--Sare by
gar, you be Won grand rascale--you be like
Sam--like Sam--vat you call de leetle noun
tain 2
Sam Hill, Spose you mean!
'Oui Monsieur--Sam de Hlll-yes, sare,
you lie like TWO Sam Hill. You send me
one mare-horse for von hundre dollaire-he
no wort Won hundred cent, by gar 2
Why, what's the matter with the beast!
Mavair SuUre MataIr DO you cay w,
he's all ma!air--he no 60 at all---he got nc
leg. no feet, no Wind, he blind like Won stone
vid dis eye-he see nobody at all vid da
eye--he 60 vheeze-o .vheezee.o like one
forge hammer bellOws-he go limp, lump
he no 60 over at ell de ground-he nc
two mile in tree day Oui sare, and fund
de money back
Refund the money! Oh. NO, cOuld'n
think Of such thing
Wat! You no fund me back the money
You sheaty me vid voa hundrs dollar,
horse dat no! can go at all
Il never promised you that he would go
BY gar vat is Won horse good for wher
he no 60. He is no better as Won deaC
shackass, by gar. Viii you, sare, take th'
mare-horse back, and give me money vat
pay him for Z
mo, sir, caunot-'twas fair bargain
your eyes were your own market, as W.
gentleman Of the turf say
Gentlemen de turf YSu be no gentle
man at all--you be no turf. Mon Dieu
, you be Won grand Turk, Won sacre and de
ception. You sheet your own born mod
der, you play you rascalIy Itrick on you
own gotten fadder.-You have no princi
, pale
The interest is what go in for.
Yes, sir, your interest is ne princiPalle
You be Won grand Iascalle sheet. Mo-
Dieu, we're you die Won you 60 to, heh L
diable-he fetch you no time quicker b,
gar
, Failing to obtain redress Of the jockey
the poor Frenchman sent his mare horse
TO an auctoneer 10 be sold. But the auC
) tiSneer seems ts have been as great rogu
, as the jockey, for he took care that the fee
) for selling should eat up the price ho got 70
) the steed.
: by gar said the Frenchman, when re
: lating the story, Il be sheaty all rOund.-
: De schocky-horse, he 0heaty me in trade
and de hauctoneer, he sheaty me in dis
> pose Of de hanimale he sell me de mare
, horse for ten dollaire; and by gar, he sharz
) me 'leVen dOllaire for sell him. Mon Dieu
, so be take all round in. l lose 'leven an'
one hundred dollaire all in my pocket cleal
, for one sacre dam, limp, lump, vheeze-vind
no see at all, good for nothing shape Of
: mNe.horse, worse as niae-teen dead shack
ass, by gar