Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-11-22
STATE FAIRs--GETTING ON THE COM
ETTTJ'EES

WouIG. be a 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 TIE CID MARE.
Wei, we packed of Sam, for was will
ing to give the boy holiday It does the
boys great-good to attend these kind of fairs,
[ do believe, after seeing all I saw there.
GOES IN.
We got safely to town Monday night and
Tuesday | went up early to the Fair Grounds
to see what was going on. [ got in and
hunted up Sam, and found he'd got the mare
entered and had got his card on her head,
and a good stall, and all things comfortable.
The animal arrangements were first rate
generally, and during all. the time Of the
Fair the supply of fodderVsyas good [
think that Maj. Patric, who was everybody
in managing things, a trump 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 ?'
eyes"
60 So am 7, and we had better look to the
committees
''Why SO %
''You see the committees are never all
full, and if you are on hand at the big tent
when they are called, it's easy to slip in
friend which is a nice thing sometimes"
''Wen, [ am showing patent for max
ing Gu cucumbers, and if you get the premium,
it will make your fortune
,"AndI am showing new kind of bob
tailed hens, and the premium won't set me
.!as: 81 ne % vonr eon1mittee.
and TT trade you fol nllile 8 S.
3 All right; SO in to win, when you can. 2
= Thinks I, perhaps, if that's the way the
thing leans, I may as well take care Of my
self as anybody else: Everybody for him
[ streaked to the cattle pens to find Smith,
who is my neighbor, you know. Smith is
in the patent bull line. Mr.. p, evident
ly means ''improved." Says [, ''Smith,
you are showing bulls. and Pm showing old
Nance, and guess if merit counts We win:
And that's talk here on paper" Then
told him what had heard about the COM
mittce.
Us that so %
"Exactly.'
"Well, I think old Nance is the best
mare in the yard"
.'And you've got the best bull in the
yard"
Then told him we must be UP at the
tent in time.
Well, sure enough, when the committee
was made up was on Smiths bull COM
mittee, and he was on the mare committee.
THE COMMITTEE GOES OUT.
The head man took the books as had the
things in it. and were all introduced to each
other, and we went down to look at the bulls
We were on red bulls; So 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, punch
ed my fingers in his ribs, and went through
the motions as [ had seen the Others Says
|, "that's a bull that looks like it, Smith
had combed him all over with fine toothed
comb, and brushed him with a hair brush,
and he did look 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 a multitude of sins.
GETS THE HORNS poKED AT HIM.
Just as / said that, the person who had
bull in the next stall comes up to me pret-
ty fiercely and, SAYS he:
"W hat do you know about bulls p
''Wcll," says [, Il think I know what
they are used for in my section.''
May be, he replied, you arc on the COM
mittee
Il have the honor" says I.
But, says he, that bull hain't got any
pedigree -
"Well," says I, ''hc had father and mo-
ther, hadn't he %
,"oh! yes, but then nobody knows who
they were"
"Well, then nobody knows but they were
just as likely as your bulls parents.'
"But, sir, look at nay bulls pedigree
There it is, sir. Got by imported Short
TAIL out of Skcm- milk, by Thunder, &c. )"
and he showed string of names as long as
your arm
''Well,' says to the committee, care
we to judge tic pedigree or the animal ?''
And they saiI-''thc animal"
''Then," said l to the fellow, 'will your
bull get better stock than this p
''Of course he WILL" says he, ''for he's
got pedigree, and that bull hain't"
well, says |, ''your bull has got some
body to brag for him, and the other hasn't
that's certain And that sort of Rocked
him. But" says !, i've known people