Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-03-05

fore. But Ulysses accomplished the task.
He returned the horse at night perfect
PAGER. The letter was all a sham. Ulys-
ses found out the trick, and nobody after
that could ever get him TO break q horse
TO pace. i.Irsf
When Ulysses was In bis twelfth year
he was very small for his age. At that
time had taken the contract to build the
jail in Brown County. Theprison was to be
Of logs hewn foot square and fourteen
feet long. These had to be hauled about
two miles from the woods where they
were cut, to the site OF the Jail. gem
orally worked small, or rather medium
sized horses, but happened to have one
very large one. A neighbor had one
about the same size, and Ulysses was so
anxious that should buy him that he
said TO me one day. Father, IL 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 posi-
bly, hold out to work the team over a
week-he was such little bit Of fellow.
l even hired another man to work the
team and told him to 20 along with Ulys-
ses; but not TO let him know until the
boy was tired out, what he was hired for.
The man accompanied him for number
of days, when he came TO me and said =
"There is no use In my going with that
boy any longer; he understands the team
! and can manage it as well as | can, and
better too. There 's no use in my follow
ing him round"
One day, after hauling load, Ulysses
took the team out, and said to me-
"The men are not in tho woods hewing
to-day, and there is no need of my going
back this afternoon, as ] can keep up
with their hewing to-merrow; and there
| is nobody there 70 help load"
Nobody there to help load 2" said /.
"Why, how did you load this morning?"
"Oh, Dave and loaded he answered.
Dave was the name OF the big horse 1
had bought.
"You and Dave loaded! What do you
mean!" said 1, for considered it abso.
lutely impossible that child of his size
should have got such immense logs into
the wagon without help.
! YES" said he, "Dave and / loaded
1 took chain and hitched on to the end
of the logs, and We managed to get them
in"
He then explained how il wa, done
A large sugar tree had been felled, SO that
itlay aslant, one end resting on the ground
and the other elevated. He had hitched
the horse, Dave, to the end of hewn
log, and hauled 1t up or to this sugar tree
the end projecting over far enough &c
back the wagon under it. Three made d
load; and when he got three hauled UP
in this way, he backed the hind end o
the wagon up under them, and hitching
the powerful horse in front by means o
long chain which extended over tbs
| who length of the was o body, he pu!
ed them one at time into the wagon.-
, This was much talked off in the neighbor
hood, as il was considered greatachieve
ment for boy of his size. He worked
the whole seven months and until tht
job was finished, hauling those logs, an,
other material for the building, with tn
exceptions of single week. That weel
sent him to Louisville. 1t was neces
sary for me to have a deposition takel
there, to be used in law suit in which
was engaged in the State of Connecticut
} had written more than once about it +
my lawyers, but could not get kthe busi
ness DONE "I can do it," said Ulysses
J So sent him on the errand alone. Be
} fore he started gave him an open lette
that he might show the Captain of tn
} boat, or any one else, If he should hav
occasion, stating that he was my son an
} WAS going to Louisville on my business
Going down he happened tomeeta neigh
Dor with whom he was acquainted; so h
had no occasion to use the letter. Blu
when he came on board q boat to returi
the Captain asked him who he was. III
told him; but the Captain answered: :"
cannot take you. You may be running
away" Ulysses then produced my let
ter, which put every thing right; and tn
Captain not only treated him with grea
kindness, but took 80 much interest il
him as to invite him TO 30 as far Us Marys
Vile with him, where he had relative
living, free of expense. $40.