The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-03-07

NJ AL OLD O4SgDUB DeIvE1.
. have read with good deal Of interes
all that has been printed about Rarey an,
his way OF breaking horses. rs have had
good deal to do with that description o
quadruped myself. pretty much all my life
and I'm satisfied there's heap more intel
Ggence inethe animal than they generall,
get credit for. Take horse that know
anything. and let green hand get hold O
the reins. and see how soon he'll find it out
] have known one Of the steadiest old horse
you ever saw. when driven by man. tha
no woman could ever do any thing with
Just as soon As one would take tie reins, b.
would start of on jog trot for about 4
quarter Of mile. aud then, in spite Of al
that she could do, he would turn carefully
and deliberately about. and trot back to
where he started from. To be sure, there
are women who can drive as we'll IS any
man, but allow that none Of that kind ev-
or got hold OF this old fellow. There is .
great deal in having natural faculty for
! handling horscs-some folks can get along
with almost any one, and you can't see how
they take hold OF :hem different from other
people, either. &
once knew great work Of grace brought
about by man having this faculty. 1t was
down to Skowhegan in the State Of Maine.
I was driving stage there. and the Compsny
bought big raw boned sorrel. and it seem
Cd as il the evil one possessed him. He
Just beat all the horses that ever saw in
my life. and I've handled some mighty
tough cusses in that way myself. tie was
the most unaccountabIe, cross grained. kick
ing. squealing. contrary. baulky. no-aecount
beast that was ever fosled, do believe.
His coat was always rough; he was the
biggest kind Of a feeder. and you could al
ways count his ribs he was treachsrous.
biting fool Of brute, and had chewed up
three or four hostlers-and the only way
We ever managed to work bim was to hitch
him up 10 the middle of six horse team,
when he'd lay down and let the other five
horses drag him ill his 'tarnal hide got SO
yaw h- .oaldn't stand it any longer. and
then lie d get up and pitch in and pull like
fourteen hi,ten devils.
Tn-re was q blacksmith there, . big sew. |
en- n.i~,er. BY the name OF Resolved Delano,
bat the called him Sol Tor short, that was
the ton hest chap in a rough and tumble
fight within forty miles. and . tremendous
cussing and swearing character to boot. 1t
vae seGkoned. on fair calculation. that he
feould apt~swAAr any ten nen in the county.
sAud give them twenty 6our hours start in the |
game We'll. Old Sorrell he cast : shoe
ss@ dsy- ssad they. sent him over - SoPs 70
y shod. Solwent II him. jest - be would
d. anyT hosse. and The old hlloR assmrd 10
think he'd got his mstch At kst-(or afkesl
III. Whu knew his tgickav and made up bis i
ni0A q tate the conceit ouk ~ lin, had II
eaaesa him for abopt hall - hogiTs ksses II
~ sakD ~ his foot-it was ~ x5ef iod 4
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y1llly - fs9e ~ = pensh ia de breed
66lkst. sasy Me. just enough TO upset him
withoet hurting him much. and then ~ he j
Vas getting up he let both heels fly. and
kept 'em moving as long as was necessary.
side Of the street; three Of his ribs were
broke. his face was so puffed up that his
own mother wouldn't have known him, aud
his whole body was about the worst pum-
meled mess of hum,n flesh that ever was
seen outside of skeleton. He didn't know
anything when they picked him up. and he
never spoke for three days. At the end Of
that he commenced cussin', and the doctor
said he was coming TO his senses.
Soils wife was pious woman, and rs she
thought her husband was in mighty way.
morally and otherwise. and would, likely as
not follow the example of Old Sorrel. and
kick, too. before he was through with it. she
sent for the minister to talk to him and try
to bring him to sense Of the errors Of his
ways. Now the mipister--he was q Metho-
dist--had just come on to The circuit He
used to preach at Skowhegsn every other
week. aud the boys had noticed that he
drove mighty clean limbed Messenger
mare, that there wasn't body round that
settlement had any business to tackle on the
road. Two or three had tried to buy her,
but il wasn't any use Elder Hobbs said
she suited him we'll enough aud he didn't care
about selling her. She had only one fault,
he said. he could never hold her when any
one tried to pass him, and we none Of US
belived shat be considered that any great
fault. either. Well, the Elder went to see
Sol. and commenced talking about his soul.
and Sol he commenced talking about his
soul himself. and the way he derned it and
the minister's too. to dernation--ouIy he
didn't say dern but something worse
enough to make b,dy's hair that wasn't
Soils wife began TO cry. and the Elder-he
was pretty able bodied man--he began to
groan xt his sinfulness. but at the same time
you could see his fist naturally double it.
self, and it seemed just As is the old Adam
was ,elliag him he had ought to give the
unmannerly shoat three good licks in the
snous to teach him how to behave himself
before company. He didn't though. but
went on expostulating with him and warn
ing him. and especially giving it to him for
being such an outrageous cussing. swearing
character. Sol went on though, all the
worse. and cussed the minister all up 10 . |
heap. cussed him with all the cusses in com. |
mon use, aud then cussed him with . lot Of
original and peculiar cusses OF his own that
he'd been conjecturing up ever since Old
Sorrel kicked him, there being no cussss
ready made that would express his feelings
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