The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-17
Horse Jockies--lIow the Fcnchm TN
was sold.

Ii any of our unsophisticate1 readers have
never had anything to do with n genuine,
unn,tgated, bona fide horse Jockey, they
viii possibly he able sympathise with a GER
tain Frenchman, a passage Of whose history
has recently come 10 our kno Wedge.
The Frenchman IN question, having a
dopted this country as his residence, want
ell to procure for himself an animal, the use
of whose legs should serve instead of bis
own, ia the various peregrinaticns he de-
signed making in the prosecution of his
search after knowledge. Being little ac-
quainted either with horse jockies or horse
flesh, he was previously taken in by a cheat
in the purrhase OF q sieed He gave 800
Tor miserable jade of an old mare, that
had been fattened up to sell, ana il turned
out to he a rngboned, spawned, bind and
wind-broken. The Frenchman, on discov-
erng that he ha'! been cheated, went to re-
quest the horse jockey 10 take back the an
ifnal, and refund the money.
.'Sarc," sac! he, 81 ave fetch back de
mare horse val you sell me, and want de
money in my pocket back"
"Nour pocket back ~ returned the lock
ey, feiguius surprise, 81 dou't understand
you"
"fou not stand under mel" exclaimed
the irritated Frenchman. beginning to gestic-
: uiaie firously, "You not stand under. me !
!; Sare, by gar, you be one grand rascale--
!!you lie like Sam-,ike Sam-vat you call
:ze leetle mountain, en-"
sSam Hill, suppose you mean"
"Oui, Monsieur-Sam de Hiil-yes, sar,
you lie like two Sam Hill. You sell me
one mare horse for one hundred dollare-
he no wort one hundred cent, by gar.''
AWAITS the matter with the beast!"
"Mattair Sacre! Mattair, do you say!
wv he i. is all liattair-he no 60 at all
he got no leg-no fret--no vind-he blind
like one stone viz dat eye--he 90 veheeze-o,
:veheeze-o like one forge hammer bellows;
he no go over al all Re ground-he no trav-
.elie two mile in tree day. Oui, sar, he is
!one grand sheat. You must take him, and
iiund re money back"
''Refund the money! Oh, | could'n, think
of such thing"
"Fa,? you 40 fund me back re money,
You shcat me viz one hundred dollar horse,
Zat can no 20 ut all ~
81 never promised you that he would
go.''
SPY gar! vat is one mare horse good for
ven he no go' He is no better as one dead
.hackass. Win you, sare, take re mare
horse back and give me my money var pay
for hiiA:'' -,
siNo sir,,I cannot--'twas q fair bargain
--.yotw eyes were your own market, as we
gentlemen of The turf say" -
"Gentleman re turf! You be no gentle
man NJ ali-you he no turf--mcn dieu, -
you be one grand Turque-one Shew-one
sacre liam deceptione. You sheat your own
born mother-yoo play one rnsca.le trick
m Jour own gotten father. You ave no
principles
..Ibe interest is what look att
IL. "l es sare. your interest is no principalle.
You be one grand rascaIe sheat. Mon
diu! we're ven you die you go to-; heb lie
Diable black he fetch you 10 time quick,
10y gar"
Failing to obtain redress of the jockey The
poor Frenchnan sent his Snare horse'' 10
an autionecr 10 te sold. But the auction
q Ger proved to lie a. great rogue as the
jockey; for he took care that the fees for
selling should eat up the price he got for
the animal.
"By gnr!" said the Frenchman, in rela-
ting the story, 81 be sheated all round.-
lie shtky ho Sc he sheat me in re trade,
and r., auctioueer he sheat me in dispose Of
the aiuinIa!e, He sell me re mare bore for
one ten dollar, and hy gar, he sharge me
Eleven dollar for sell him Mon Dieu! so
t,e take al, round ~. 1 lose 'leven, and one
hnnlred dollar all in my pocket clear. for
.s,e saere dam, limp-Isimp, peheeze-yind.
10 see nj all, good for nothing lump of
mare horse, worse as nineteen lead shack
assoc. by gar"