Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-10-22
HORSE JOCKEYS.

ml'lgated, bana-fide horse jockey, they will
possibly be able to sympathize with a GER
tain Frenchman, passage Of whose hislo-
ry has recently come to our knowledge.
The emigrant in question, having adopted
this country as his residence wanted to
procure for himself an animal, the use of
whose legs should serve instead Of his own,
IN the various pregrinations he designed
making in the prosecution of his search al
ter knowledge. Being little acquainted with
either horse jockeys or horse flesh, he was
grevously taken in by cheat in the pur
chase of a s,eed. lie gave him hundred
dollars for miserable jade Of an old mare,
that had been fattened up to SELL and turn
ed out to be ring-boned, spawned, blind and
wind broken. Tho Frenchman, on discov-
ering that he had been cheated. went to re-
quest the Jockey to take back the animal
and refund the money.
''Sare," said he, ~ ave fetch back the
mare-horse vat you sell me, and van, de
money in my pocket back"
"Yo pocket back ~ returned the Jock
ey, feigning surprise, ~ don't understand
you"
"You not stand under me ~ exclaimed
the Frenchman, beginning TO ges,iculate fu-
riously, 'you not stand under me !--Sare,
by gar, you be one grand rascalIe-you lie
like Sam--like Sam-vat you call dc leele
mountain ehn'
''Sam Hill, suppose you mean"
"Oui, Monseur-Ssm de llill-yes, sare,
you lie like two Sam Hill. You sell me
one mare horse for one hundred dollar-he
NO wort one hundred cent by gar."
"Whal's the matter with the beast?'
''Ma,lair! Sacre mattair, do you say .
Wy he is all mat,air-he no go at all-he
got no leg--no feet, no vind-he blind like
one stone vid dat eye-he 60 veheeze-c,
veheeze-o, like one forge-hammer elows
he no 60 over all de ground-he no trav-
ellie two miles in tree day. Oui, sare, he is
one grand sheat. You must take him, and
fund de money back"
"Refund the money! Oh, couldn't think
of such ,hing''
"Vat! You no fund him back de money?
You sheaty me vid one hundred dollar
horse, dat no can 60 at all !"
81 never promised you that he would
go"
"By gar vat is one horse good for ven
Ire no go! He is no better as one dead
shackass, by gar. Viii you, sare, take the
mare-horsc back and give me my money
Val ! pay for him :"
IN O sir, cannot-'lwas fair bargain
your eyes were your own market, we
gentlemen Of the turf say"
''Genllman de turf! You be no gen,il-
man at all-you be no turf-mon Dieu
you be one Turque-one Shcw-onc sacre
dam Gcceptione. You sheaty your own
born modcr-you play one rascalle trick on
your gotten iader. You ave no princi-
pale--"
'sThe interest is what | look at"
Yes, sare, your interest is no prIncIpalle.
Y on be one grand rascalie shea,. Mon
Dieu we're you die ven you 60 TO ? heb
lie Diablc black he fetch you no time quick,
by gar"
Failing to obtain redress from the Jockey,
The poor Frenchman sent his "mare-horse"
to an auclionecr to be sold. But the auc-
lioneer proved to be as great rogue as the
Jockey for he took care that the fees for
selling should ca. up the price he got for
the animal.
"By garo said The Frenchman, in relat-
ing the story,"I be shealy all round. De
shockey horse, lie shealy me in trade; aud
the auclioneer, he shea,y me in dispose OF
the hanimaIe He sell me dc mare-horse,
for ten dollar, and by gar, he sharzge me
'Ieven dollar for sell him. Mon Dicu SO
be take all round in. ! lose 'leven and
one hundred dollar all in my pocke, clear,
for one sacre dam, limp lump, veheeze-vlnd,
no sec at all, good for nothing shade Of a
mare horse. worse as nineteen dead shack
asses, by garl' And SO we leave him.
NEwsPApEEs.-W. G. Bryant, speaking
Of newspapers, said: "Books are The pre-
cious metals i'll masses-newsPapcrs com
them for general use, put them into The most
convcnlen. forms and pass them hand TO
hand" "Newspapers," he said, ''are the
ushers of books; who would know when a
book was published bnt for the friendly in
formation of the newspaper ?''-lle added
'ihat he had been sometimes tempted 10 re-
gret that the wise, witty, or eloquent things
which appeared in these ''foIios Of four
pages,'a as they are called by Cowper, should
not be inscribed on more durable tablets,
instead of going the mex. morning to wrap
parcels or light kitchen fires; but he was
fully satisfied with their fate, when he re-
hccted that they had first been read by thou
sands, aud watever was good in them had
passed into the general mind"
The London Punch tells the following
way TO play "All Fnurs' :-s'Drink some
bottled stout, two bottles of port, glass
Marashino, jorum of whskey punch, and
a tumbIer of British brandy, aud you will
find, bci"re.y you get home, how very easy
It ls 10 play at al.fouTs,o