Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-05-22

! says !, do you want to make V' 81 dou'
want to do any thing else" says he.-'Well
them says ], throw away your cigar, pu
your hat square on your head, take that swag.
ger out of your carcass, aud come aud swan
my brown horse for me, and wan. you to look
so much like an honest man that your wife
wouldn't know YOU
well, he got down where the chap was
'here's the gentleman says H. that owns the
brown boss, aud he is wilin' to make au ex-
change with you'-'very well, saws the fell
low, 'tell what you'll do' On this, off goes
Jim at hali-cock. trve owned this critter
from COLT said he; sl've used him in every
way aud shape and he never failed He ain't
used to high keeping, but takes man's
boss to beat him. Ihere he is-look fos
yourseli-sound, kind and goods years old
next spring. I'll warrant him RICH, in nuy
harness, aud you come toa hill he's there. I
should feel batlAto part with bin;' ond re y !.
the OH ieiIow feolls- 4! ise-,. ,,tY-tHs,l.r
says ], 'how'll you trade p Il can't make no
my mind says old Jim. must see my son.
Offer him 500 says ! in my Convey Is ear
No., says he, 81 can't trade him shor, Of $50
myself.'-'But, says !, 'you will trade for 2O'
es,' says he. winked to old Jim to close
up. 'Weli,' says old Jim, 4 shall trade.'
we shifted putty quick, guess and
never felt safe till saw his halter on Old
Brown. Just as he was goin' off, he turned
and says 10 me, 'when you put that colt in
10 pieces; and oh, how he laughed. Eve
heard folks laugh, and I've heard them crv.
but never heard anything before or since that
come over me as tina, did Eel, as if I'd liv-
ed on raw barberes for week, and exercised
myself xyIptfipu Old lin, Ion ctoJ :,
though he'd split. where's the w says
he, and then he laughed. ! hired boss cart
and put the colt in he got to kirkin,' and
there he kicked il all to pieces in no time,
his hind legs went like mill race; them ere
gambols want made for nothin' I'll tell you
he kicked the cart all to filters, and had to
Fay $37 for it.
Well, thought I'd make the best of bad
job, SO bought an old cripple for ten dollars
TO draw my wagon, and tied my colt behind,
and cuss him he wouldn't go there, but wen.
to pulling back and broke my new wagon
Well, thinks |, l'll put up and try again in the
morning; but hadn't seen the worsest yet.
Tor they wouldn't put him up no how they
SAID he was glandered, and so he was the
chap had blown powdered alum up his noset
so 1t didn't show, and was SO earnest to pick
up flat ! hadn't looked TO see anylhing.'
And that was the end of my ;lancy trade'
gave the colt away after two days, for he
wouldn't fetched me pint of cider 1t was
good deal for me in the end though, for my
school master used to say that hours work
bred me circumspecnon. And from that day
10 this. Pve never took u auAden shine 10 any
thing without it's bringing ,ha, colt right afore
my eyes. I've never bin married. and gal
must manage purity well to make me sweel,
for the black cows horns show dreadful quick
to me, on account of The color
And, now, captain, let's have our hot wills
Key punch, and 90 TO roost, and it's vour treat,
Tor you're gettin' your experience mighty fast,
and Uithout payin' for H.