Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-01-15
no. 81.

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I dreadful criller for trade. .Jim,' says l,
do you want TO make W. i don't want
10 do any thing elsei' says he. Well, then,
says l, throw away your cigar, put your
hat square on your head, take that swas-
ger out Of your carcass, and come and
swap my brown boss for ME, and l want
you to look so much like an honset man
that your wife wouldn't know you.
Well he got down where the chap was;
'here's the gentleman says I, that owns
the brown boss, aud he IS willing ,olmake
an exchange with you'-'Very well,' says
the fellow, tell what you'll do. On this.
off goes old Jim at Iialf-crack. 1--we owned
this critler from q colt says he; I've used
him in every way and shape; and he never
failed. He amt used 20 high keepin' bui
il takes mans hoss to beat him. There
he is-look for y1uiselr-sound; kind and
goods years old next spring: Ill war
rant him right ii any harness. and yda
come TO hill he's there. should feel
bad ID part with him." aud really the
old fellow looked as il he'd cry. We'll,
says /, howl you trade = 'Ican't ma&e
up MY mind says old Jim. l must see
my son. Offer him $50, says / in my
covey's ear. No. says he, Il can't trade
him shor orsaO myself But says I. yoh
will trade for twenty: YES says he. I
winked to old Jim to close up. 'Wsll,'
says old Jim, i shall trade
We shifted purity Quick; guess, and I
never fell safe until saw his halter on old
Brown. Jus, as he @es son' of, he turned
round, and says to me, when you. put
that colt in your wagon; set nell back, for
he'll kick II all Fo pieces aud oh, how hs
laughed. I've hearn folks laugh, and i've
hearn them cry, but | never heard anything
before or since, that come over me as that
did. felt as if Id lived on raw barber
ries for week; and exercised myself
whettin saws. Old im!laughed as though
he'd split. Where's the w said he. ..and
then he laughed. hired d noss cart and
put The colt in; he got 10 kckin,' and there
he kicked il all to pieces in no time, his
hind legs went like mill race them efs
gambols want made for no,hin' I'll tell
you; he kicked the carl all TO filters, and
l had to pay s37 for it:
Well. | thought I'D iiake The best Of q
bad job, so bough, an old cripple for ten
dollars 10 draw my wagons and tied the
colt behind. and cuss him he wouldn't 90
there, but went 10 pulling back and broke
my new wagon: Well. thinks I. I'll nut
up and Try again in the morning bu,
hadn't seen the worsest YET. for they
wouldn't put him up 40 how they said
he was glandored, and so he was; The chap
had blowed powdered alum up his nose
so didu't show; aud was so earnest to
pick up flat hadn', looked to SEE any,
Thing. And that was the end Of nv
"fancy trade."
I gave The colt away after two duys, for
he wouldn't "A fetched me a pint of cider.
1t was good deaf for me in the end though.
for my schodl master Used 10 say that
hours work bred me circumspection. And
from that day to this, I've never took
sudden shine 10 any thing without it's
bringing That colt right afore my eyes.
I've never been married. and cal mus.
manage purity we'll, to make me sweet, for
The black cows horns show dreadful quick
to me, OH account Of the color.
And now. captain; let's have bur hot
whiskey punch, and 60 TO roosi; and it's
your treat. Tor you're getting your expe-
rieuce mighty fast, and without payin' tor
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