Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-10-20

Col. MooRE.-Some years ago got ae-
quainted with one Of your contributors, who
edited the Wool Grower, and he used to put
me in print / mustsay my vanity was dat
tered seeing my name printed in the paper,
with some things said and some didn't say;
and we've kept the papers ever since. After
all, everybody likes little fame, but some are
satisfied with q smaller. amount than others.
Well, / have not the editor any more to set me
out, 30 have been thinking I wsuld Just try
and see if you would not put me in the Rural
on my own hook, especially as want to tell
Buffalo the other day. -.-s-s -. -'.....
CONCLUDES TO co.
As it was not 50 far off but that we could 20
with our team, mother and concluded We
would hitch up and have q week to see the
sights and some cousins We had not seen for
long time. Mother Chats wife, you know
thought We ought to take something to the fair.
I told her to take tub of her butter, but she
didn't think it was good enough, but thought
I might take some Of the stock. But thought
it would be great bother. However, Sam
was pretty strong in the faith that we could
beat everybody on horses, and wanted to take
old Nance. She's right smart old beast, is
that old mare, you may depend.
TAKES THE MARE. t.
B. Well we packed off Sam, for I was willing
to give the boy holiday. 1t does the boys
g.,
believe, after seeing all saw there.
GOES IN. q
We got safely in town on Monday night, and
Tuesday went up to the fair grounds to see
what was going on. I got in and found he'd
got the mare entered, ana had got his card on
her head, and good stall and all things com
Portable. The animal arrangements were rst-
rate generally, and during all the time of the
fsir the supply OF fodder was good. L think
that Major Patrick, who was everybody in
managing things, trump sort Of man.
HEARS SOMETHING.
As was standing up near the business Office
in the crowd heard a couple of men talking
about premiums. One said to the other:
Are you an exhibitor or?"
"Yesh ls...
$50 am I, and we had better look to the
committees"
"Why so?
You see the committees are never full, and
if you are on hand at the big tent when they
are called it Is easy to slip in a friend, which
is a mighty nice thing sometimes"
"Well, am showing q patent for making
cowcumbers, and if you can get the premium
il will make my fortune.
And 1 am showing q new kind of bob
tailed hens, and a premium won't set me
back"
"Well, you get me on the committee, and
will name you for mine" -
.All right; go in to win when you can"
Thinks 1, perhaps If that's the way the thing
iesns, may as well take care of myself as any
one else. Everybody for himself seems to be
the rule on these occasions. So of I streaked
to the cattlepens to find Smith-he is my
neighbor, you know; Smith, who is in the
patent bull line. (Mr. p. evidently means
'improved.") Says /, "Smith, you're show
ing bulls, and I'm showing old Nancy, and I
guess If merit counts we can win and that's
the talk here on paper" Then told him
what heard about the committee
"Is that so?"
Exactly"
in the yard"
1"And you've got the best bull on the
ground" =
Then I told him that we must be up at the
tent in time. l5tE.
Well, sure enough, when the committees were
made up, 1 was on Smiths bull committee,
and he was on the mare committee.
THE COMMITTEE GOES OUT.
The head man took the book, as he had the
things in it and we were all introduced to each
other, and went down to look at the bulls. We
were on the red bulls. 30 we went along and
looked at them, and didn't say much till We
came to Smiths bull, and looked at him
pretty carefully, pulled his tail, punched my
fingers in his ribs, and went through the mo-
L..
a bull that looks like it." Smith had combsd
him all over with q fine toothed comb, and
brushed him with q hair brush, and he looked
slick, for he Was just as fat as hog. And
from all saw, / think fat at fairs, like what
the lawyer said about charity, covers multi
tude of SINS tts
GETS THE HORNS PoKED AT HIN.
Just as said that, the fellow who had a
bull in the next stall comes up TO me pretty
fierce, and says he: ~ -
What do you know about bulls?" o.
"Well, says 1, 81 think know what they
are used for in my section.''
MAY be-" says he, "you're one of the COM
''I have that honor" saysI. r..a
But" says he, that bull hain't got any
;. Wsll,n says I, he had father and mother,
were"
swell, then nobody knows but they were
just as likely as your bulls parents"
"But, sir, look at my bulls pedigree There
it is, sir: Got by imported Shirt tail out of
Skim milk, by Thunder" /" &C., and he showed
string of names as long as your arm.
well !" says L to the committee, 'are we to
judge the pedigree or the animal?" -
And they said, 'The animal, of course"
"Then," said to the fellow, "will your bull
get better stock than thist"
"Of course he will, says he, "for he's got
pedigree, and that bull hasn't"
Well, says /, "your bull has got some
body to brag for him, and the other hasn t. GER
tain And that sort o. knocked him "But,"
says j, "I've known people who felt grand
over their pedigree, and I've seen heap of
people who couldn't 20 further back than their
father and mother, who had banged them all to
pieces for smartness. Handsome is that hand
some does, !" says I, and rs the hymn book
says a mans man for a. that Pedigree
60 to grass, 60 in for the animal"
SMITHS BULL WINS
when We got through and looked ut our
marks, the other two had Smiths ball second.
1 had him first. So We talked Ii over. and
finally, as they did not care much about il,
they altered the figures and gave Smith the
hrst premium which I think was right.
AND THE OLD MARE.
smith had great time over old Nance. 1t
turned out that each Of the other two commit.
teemen had friends whose mares were to be
judged, and they pretty soon picked out their
favorites. 80 he kept still and let them talk.
and they soon got into aquarrel, and then theyI
appealed to Smith, and he kinder sided with
ONE, but thought old Nance was the best mare.
and finally to keeD tha othar f-o.. --.I:I