Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-11-24
WHOLE NUMBER $40.

ealNibS oOVus P'0Wiuma. 0uo nHfo 70 tud
other, ~
"Are you an exhibitor p
"Yes6
$50 am I, and we had better look 70 the
committees"
Why so p
You sec the committees are never all full.
and if you are on hand at the big tent
when they are called, it is easy to sIip in q
friend, which is mighty nice thing sometimes.
Wen, am showing a patent for making
eoweumbers, and il ! can get the premium
it will make my fortune.
And l am showing a new kind Of bob
tailed hens, and the premium won't set me
back
AN right go in to win while YOU CAM
Thinks ], perhaps, if tbats the way the
thing leans l might as we'll take care OF
myself seems to be the rule on these occa
sions SO off went to the cattle mems 20
lind Smith my neighbor. Smith is 10 the
patent bull line. Says |. Sruith, you ars
showing bulls and am showing old Nance:
and guess, if merit counts, we can VIM
And that talks here on paper Then 1
told him what had heard about the COM
mittees
rs that so p
Well [ think old Nance is the best ia
the yard m
And you have got the best bull on the
Then 1 told him he must be up to the
tent in time.
Well, sure enough; when the committees
were made up; was on the bull committee,
aud Smith on the mare committee,
THE COMMITTEE GOES OUT.
The head man took the books as he had
the things in it, aud we were all introduced
to each other to see the bulls We were on
the red bulls. SO we went along and lock-
ed at them, and 1 didn't say much till we
came to Smiths bnll, aud looked at him
pretty careful, pulled his tail, panehed my
fingers int his ribs, and went through the
motions as i had seen the others. Says I,
that's q bu! that looks like it,
Smith had combed him over with small
tooth comb, aud brushed him With hair
brush, and he did look slick, for he was
just as fat as a hog. And from all think,
fat at fairs is like what the lawyer said
about charity it covers q multitude Of sins.
GETS THE HORN PC X AT HnM bs
Just as l said that, the fellow id the NEXT
stall comes up to me pretty aeree, aud
says he ss
What do yon know about bulls p 81
WELL says /, I think know somethingf
May be- says he, you are on the com.
mittee Y
I have that honor saysf. -.
But says be, that bull hain't got any
pedigree
Well says I, he had father and moth
er, hadn't he p
'Oh! yes, but then nobody knows who
they were' @
We'll then, nobody knows but they were
just as likely as your bulls parents
But, sir, look at the bulls pedigree.
There il is, sir got up by imported Short
tail, out of Skim-mlk, by Thunder &c.--
and he showed string Of names as long
as your arm. .f....l.
Well says to the committee, ARE We
to judge by the pedigree or the animal 2
And they said-'The animal of course
Then said the fellow, my bulls got
pedigree, and that bull hain't.'
We'll, said |, your bull has got some
body to brag for him, and the other hasn't,
that is certain And that sort o. knocked
him But says |, I've seen heap Of
people who couIdn't go further back than
their father and mother, that banged them
all to pieces for smaItuess Handsome Is
as handsome does, says /, and as the hymn
book says, "a mans man for all that.
Pedigree go to grass, go for the snimal.,