Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-05-10

are hosS-Wouluu yeF
n''A hundred dollars is the price---and
| gave fifty more" {" ''os = 7" ~
' "Don't say Give a laundering too
much, Squire" '.aia'2'a .3''oa p
''Pat, you may put up the hose; | do
not think the gentleman wants him." '
s'Look o'hcre, Squire; if you was to
say something -like-seventy or seventy
five dollars, nowhere might be some
use in talkin'." l'1Uo1 ,Hta1iaifmbG
"Not one bit of use"4-impatiently-
turning on my heel" 7'1 i77a 4ia Ups
''d'''----Bay, .Squirc-cver had him to
plowT' 7oi'f5f E9'F'7'"i TiiEs7g
IN "Yesra a.f OF is,.'ja.a-7 sa4 lasub |
"Work ven9r $40 80 u.sa sH
70 "Perfectly WE'LL" tsla e1l Dey asia
'm Fractions any Them kabnouks is
contrary critters when they are mind TO
be."a B0g ,gmra tooa ho77cs-iow nd .
''ile is quite gentle.' u i9 .iia''
"That a good pint; but them's that's
worked till they getquiet, kinder gifts the
spirit lost out on 'em.--ain't so brisk when
you put 'em to wagin. Don't you find it
so, Squire ?"
"Not at all."5 10 ~ Il
"How old, Squire, did ye say he was
looking in his mouth again :
Seven" ,'@'' ..D' -'i.D p. '"'
"Well-I guess he is good many dg-
ures higher that than he is to tew, any
way" aa,,sIT Il aa,a "
"Patrick, you had better put the horse
up." gwa'@ II hta H-- N
'Hold on Squire and taking out his
purse, lie counted "seventy-eighty
and five---and two--~and a fifty
there, Squire, tain't worth talkin' about !;
I'll split the difference with ye, and take
the hoss."
"!Pat, put him up"
At which the customer is puzzled, hes
itates, and the horse is entering the stable
when he breaks out explosive!y.
"Well, Squire, here's your money
But you're the most Uneasy man for a
dicker that | ever traded with. I'll say
that for yo." ..N
And the horse is transferred to his
keeping. i ''Fh it-- n !"
"S'pose you throw in the halter and a
blanket, Squire, don't yeF' NJ -.
"Give him the halter and blanket, Pat.
rick,n iR p y'im. tG--.b l..W'
"And Patrick, you amt got nary old
eurry-ccmb you don't use, you could let
me have" -.i re H II
Give him curry-comb Pat"
esquire, you're clever man. Got
most through yer haying| z .miaa3
NEARLY" 'at..I d.t gaU
swell, I'm glad ont. Had kinder ket.
chin weather up our way" gr'0I
And with this return to general and po
lite conversation, the bargain is over
1t may be amusing, but is not inspiring
or elevating. s. "7e faG'
Yet very much of the country trade il
full of this chaffering> If have few
acres of woodland to SELL the purchaser
spends an hour in impressing upon me hi
"idee" that it is scattered and NANCY
and has been pirated upon, and that wooc
is sdull," with no prospect of It's raising
IF it is cow that venture in the mar
ket, the proposed purchaser is equal,
voluble of descriptive epthets, far from
complimentary (" She is poot well on ii
years, rather 'scrawny,' not much for bag
land thisi although she may BIO the iden
tical Devon Of my Shsrt Horn friend. l
it is pig that Iwould convert into green
backs, bslis s@Aabby, ,""scruffy'-his "pori
will waste in 'bilin" hafHa'moa -
In short, if were to take the opinion
Of my excellent friends, the purchasers
for truth, should be painfully consciou
of having possessed the most NANCY hogs
the most aged cows, the scrubbiest veal
aud the most diseased growth Of chest
nuts and oaks with which country live
was ever afflicted. s.f2i2 af y
For time, in the early period Of m.
novitiate, L was not a little disturbed a
these damaging statements; but hav'
been relieved on learning. by further ex
perience, that the urgence of such livei.
falschoods is only an ingenious mercenar,
device for the sharpening OF a bargain.
But while this knowledge puts me il
good temper again with my own possess
ions, itsadly weakeus my respect for hu
inanity. Da9 ~ o''ea 20 ~. y 'aN'' y
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