The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-03-20
degrading, and would never under

take it.
One day neighbor came to me and
said: Ulysses has a remarkable facui-
ty to teach horseto pace I have fine
young horse now, how can get Ulys-
ses to teach him to pace p
Said /: s.Y GU mustn't say word to
him about it; but send him on mission
to some place, and get him, whils he is
gone, to teach the horse to pace"
4 Said he: ST will do it." So he came
over again and said to Ulysses: 81
want to send letter, in hurry, thir-
teen miles, to Decatur, and 1 will give
you two dollars to get on my horse and
carry ii"
Ulysses was then nine or ten years
old. He was fond of making money,
and fond of that kind of business, and
he answered: 81 VIII go"
Just. as he was starting off the owner
ofthe horse cried out after him 81 Grant
you to teach that horse to pace"
The horse had never paced a step be-
fore. But Ulysses accomplished the
task. He returned the horse at night a
perfect PAGER. The letter was all sham,
Ulysses found out the trick, and nobody
after that could ever get him to break a
horse to pace. .gF
When Ulysses was in his twelfth year
he was very small for his age. AT that
time had taken the contract to build
the Jail in Brown county. The prison
part was to be of logs hewn a foot
square and fourteen inches long. These
had to be hauled about two miles from
the woods where they IyrerO cut, to the
site of the Jail. 1 generally worked
small, or rather medium sized horses,
but / happened to have one very large
one. A neighbor had another about
the same size, and Ulysses was SO anx-
ious that 1 should buy him that he said
to me one day Gather, if you will buy
that horse, will drive team until all
the logs are hauled" / agreed to do IT.
but without any idea that he could pos.
sibly hold out to work the team over q
week-he was such little bit of Eel
low. even hired another man to work
the team and told him to go along with
Ulysses; but not to let him know until
the boy was tired out what he was hir'
ed for. The man accompanied him fol
number of days, when he came to me
and said: tsTherc is no use in my go
ing with that boy any longer he under
stands the team and can manage it az
well as l can, and better too. There il
no use in my following him round"
One day, after hauling load, Ulysses
took the team out, and said to me:
'sThe men are not in the woods hew-
ing to-day, and there is no need of my
going back this aftcrneon, oara EeoF
up with their hewing tomorrow; and
there is nobody there to help load"
t.Nobody there to help load?" said ]
'eWhy. how did you load this morning 2
ooh, Dave and loaded, /" he answered
Dave was the name of the big hors'
I had bought.
"You and Dave loaded! What do yol
mean ?" said I, for considered it abso
lutely impossible that a child of his siz'
should have got such immense logs in
to the wagon without help.
.sYes," said he, Dave and loaded.
took chain and hitched on to the en-,
of the logs, and we managed to ge
them in"
i He then explained how it was done
A large sugar tree had been felled, s
that it lay aslant, one end resting on til
ground and the other elevated. He ha
hitched the horse, Dave, to the end of
hewn log, and hauled it up on to TIL
sugar tree, the end projecting over ia
enough to back the wagon under j
Three made a load and when he Ia
, got three hauled upin this way he bacl
ed the hind end of the wagon up undt
. them, and hitching the powerful hor:
i'll front by means ola long chain whic
extended over the whole of the wager
body, he pulled them. one at a time int
the wagon. This was much talked
in the neighborhood, as it was conside
ed great achievement for boy of h
, size. He worked the whole seve
: months and until the job was fnishe
hauling these logs and other materi
: for the building with the exception OF
single week That week sent him
: Louisville. It was necessary for me
have deposition taken there, to be u
;, ed in law suit in which was engage
in the State of Connecticut. I ha
. written more than once about it to n
LAWYERS, but could not get the busine
4 done. 81 can do ii" said Ulysses.
I" I sent him on the errand alone. Befo
. he started / gave him an open letter til
> he might show the captain of the boz
, or any one else, if he should have oct
sion, stating that he was my son and "
going to Louisville on my busine
II Going down he happened to NEE
u neighbor with whom he was acquainte
,e so he had no occasion to use the lett
or But when he came on board boat
OF return the captain asked him who
OF was. He told him but the captain :
lie swered: 81 cannot take you. You n
90 be running away Ulysses then P
lie duced my letter, which put eyeryth
ar right; and the captain not only trea
a him with great kindness, but took
q much interest in him as to invite hin
I'M go as far as MarysvilIe with him, VII
he had relatives living, free of expei
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.en Franklin, Eat five in the morning OF
of night, heard by a creditor makes