Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-10-13

wouldn't do nothing.
You are mistaken; he is capital cart
horse. re
Well, / don't say but what he'd be
handy with lightish load Don't call
him spawned, do you2
No, perfectly sound,
That looks kinder like spavin--rub-
bing his off hind leg.
Amt much OF horse Doctor, be ye /?
Not much.
Don't kick, does he?
No.
Them little Kanucks is apt to kick.
Silence, and an impatient movement,
which worked off by pulling out my
watch.
What time o day IS got to beG
Eleven.
Thunder! l must be going should
like to trade, Squire, but guess we can't
agree. Is'pose you'd be askin as much
-sixty-or-seventy dollars for that
are wouldn't ye?
"A hundred dollars is the price, and /
gave fifty more.
Pat, you may put up that horse; /
don't think the gentleman wants him.
Look here, Squire; eff you was to say
something g-like-seventy, or-seven-
ty-fve dollars, now,-there might be
some use in talking.
Not one bit of use, Gmpatiently)--
turning on my heel.
Say, Squire,-ever had him to a
plough ?
Yes.
Work well?
Perfectly well.
Frac ious any? Them Canucks is con-
trary critters when they've mind to be-
He is quite gentle.
That's good pint; but them that is
worked till they get quiet, kinder gifts
the spirit lost OH em.-ain't SO brisk. when
you put them tosa Vaughn Don't you
find it 30, 'Squire2 o,sgS aov p97issb 7ss -
| Not at all. -.te ... +ir atag, ...,, H,,-
How old, Squire, did yon say be was?
Cooking in his mouth) :. 10, -.
| Seven.
Well guess he is; good many fig
ures higher that. than lie is too new-any
way.
Patrick, you had better put this horse
upp 's,
Hold on, Squire, and taking out his
3 =.
five, and two, and a ffty-there Squire,
'tant worth talking about; I'll split the
difference with ye, and take the hoss,
Patrick, put him up
At which the customer is puzzled, hes
itatcs, and the horse is entering the sta
BILE again, when he breaks out explosive
ly: =.
We'll, Squire, here's your mon
ey !; but you're the most thunderin onea-
sy man for dicker that ever traded
with; I'll say that for ye.'
And the horse is transferred to his
keeping.
'S'pose you throw in the halter and
blanket, Squire, don't ye?
Give him the halter and blanket, Pat
rick
And, Patrick, you 'ant nary old curry
comb, you don't use you could let me
have?
Give him curry-comb, Pat.
Squire, you're a cIeUer man. Got most
through with your hayin
Nearly.
Well, Pm glad ont. Had kinder ketch-
III weather up our way.
And with this return to general and
polite conversation, the bargaining is
over. 1t may be amusing, but it is not
inspiring or elevating. Yet very much
of the country trade is full of this niscr-
able cha1fering. fl have few acres of
woodland to sell, the purchaser spends
an hour i'll pressing upon me his idea
that it is scattered and NANCY, and has
been pirated upon and that wood is dull,
| IL, &c
COW that venture in the market, the
proposed purchaser is equally voluble in
descriptive epithets, far from compliment
tary; she is pooty well on in years, rath-
er scrawny, not much of bag; and this,
although she may be the identical De-
Won of my Short-holn friend. lfitis a
pig that would convert into green-backs
he is flabby, scruff'y-his pork will
waste in bilin. In short, if l were to
take the opinions of my excellent friends
| the purchasers-for truth, 1 should be
painfully conscious of having possessed
the most NANCY hogs, the most aged
cows, the scrubbiest veal, and the most
diseased and stunted growth of chestnuts,
and oaks, with which a country liver was
ever afflicted.
For time, in the carly period Of my
noyitiate, l was a little disturbed by these
damaging statements; but have been re-
lieved on learning, by farther experience,
that the urgence of such lively falsehoods
is only an ingenious mcrconary device
for the sharpening ola bargain. But
while this knowledge puts me in good
temper again with my own possessions,
it sadly weakens my respect for humani-
ty.
Amateur farmers are fine subjects for
these Chafters; they yield to them with
out serious struggle. The extent and
manner Of their losses, under the engin-
eering ability of those why old gentle
men who drive sharp bargains, is some
thing quite beyond their comprehension.
1t would be well if harm stopped here.
But this huckstering spirit isvery leprous
to character. 1t bestializes; it breaks
down the traders own respect for him
self, as much as ours. The man who will
school himself into the adoption of all
manner of disguisements about the COW
he has to sell, viii adopt the sane, .arti-
fees and bubbles about the opinions he