The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-12-22
From tho Cincinnati Gazette.
An AllcgOry.

My old uncle Samuel had large
wagon which he had been driving for
many years with great ease and free
from care. The wagon had large
blue body with red side boards and Il
white cover. Uncle Sam had worked
good many horses in his team from
time to time, and he made it q rule to
keep no horse in the lead longer than
eight years, and very often he chang
ed leaders every four years.
The wagon was treighted with the
best hopes ofmankind and as the hopes
were light and free, the weight Wa:
not heavy and the wagon went on
smoothly and safely on its journey.
But at length some wicked people
piled huge load of war upon the wag-
on, which seemed likely to crush all
the hopes of the people and break their
wagon in pieces.
1t also happened just at this time
that the wagon had 10 go up a great
hill, in the road called Rebel Hill. A
great many Of his nephows told Uncle
Sam that the load was so great and the
hill so steep, he would never get up.
But he SAID: | have never stopped
yet, and | don't intend to stop now
So Uncle Sam drove on, and gradually
went up the Hill for nearly four years,
when he came to the stoepcst part OF
the whole road.
Uncle Sans leader was a tall, raw
boncd, sinewy horse, and as true as
steele; he called him Abe, and Uncle
Sam 'thought if he could depend on
any horse to pull up that Hill. it was
Abe. The wheel horses were named
Mac and Pen, Mac was the saddle
horse, and rather pony built horse
with a very prancing style; and
though he looked like he could pull if
he could get things TO suit him, he had
never been known to tighten the traces
more than once or twice in his life !;
and then he would stop and say, he
positively could not pull with that ugly
brute Abe in the lead. So he set him
self back in the brecching and held
back all the timo, even going up hill.
The off wheel-horsc, Pen, had never
been known to pull a pound. He al
ways insisted that the wagon ought not
to 60 up the hill, and if it did he would
not help. But at length they came to
the very stcepost place in the hill, and
Uncle Sam asked his horses if they
could make it. Abe said he had pulled
the wagon over n good many bad
places, and he was still willing to do
his best But Mac and Pen said they
did not believe the thing could bo done
that the hill looked higher to them
than when thoy started at the bottom,
and they could not do anothing while
Abe was in the lead. But if Uncle
Sam would take Abe out, and leave il
all TO them, and would make use of the
new Patent Chicago Brake, invoatcd by |
Mr.. Val, a very ingenious man, and
which, unlike all other brakes, is in
tended to be applied when the wagon
is going up hill, they thought they could
back the wdgon up the hill.
But Uncle Sam said that plan might
suit some people, but it did not suit
him. Hc did not with to try any such
experiments. He was too old wag-
oner to "swap horses" at such a time,
and especially to give up his best horse
for such poor sticks as these two, who
never had pulled any, and he thought
never would. SO he hitched in Andy,
another good horse, by the side of Abe,
SO he would have somebody to depend
on in case Of any accident to Abe, and