Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27

/ Really must be goin'. Should lik
to trade, Squire, but guess we can
agree. s'pose you'd be askin' as mucl
as-sixty- or--seventy dollars for tina
are boss wouldn't ye ?"
j "a hundred dollars is the price an,
gave fifty more"
| Don't say! Gave laundering to,
much, Squire"
Pat, you may put up the horse /; / don
think the gentleman wants him"
| "Look o'here, Squire; if You was to say
something like-seventy, or seventy
i've dollars, nowhere might be some
use in talkin'"
"Not one bit of use"-impatiently-
turning on my heel.
Say, Squire-ever had him to g
plow 2"
EYES,"
"Work we'll 2"
Perfectly WELL"
Fractions any? Them Kanucks is
contrary critters when they've mind to
be-"
He is quite gentle"
"That's good pint; but them that's
worked till they git quiet, kinder gifts the
spirit lost out on 'em-ain't so brisk when
you put 'em to Vaughn. Don't You find
it so Squire ?"
"Not at all"
Glow old, Squire, did ye say he was P"
looking in his mouth again.
"Seven."
we'll guess he is good MANY flo.
gers higher that than he is to tew, any
way
Patrick, you had better put this horse
up"
"Hold on Squire" and taking out his
purse, he counted -"seventy-eighty
and fve-and two-and a fifty-
there, Squire, faint worth talkin' about
III split the difference with We, and take
the hoss'
"Patrick, put him up"
AT which the customer is puzzled, hest
tates, and the horse is entering the stable.
when he breaks out explosively.
well, Squire, here's your money. But
you're the most Uneasy man for a dicker
hat ever traded with. I'll say that for
re-"
And the horse is transferred to his
leeping.
"S'pose you throw in the halter and
blanket, Squire, don't ye ?"
"Give him the halter and blanket. Pat
ick."
"And, Patrick, you amt got nary old
urry-comb you don't use, you could let
,e have?"
Give him curry-comb Pat" ,
Squire, you're clever man. Got
lost through yer haying ?" t
Nearly"
well, I'm glad ont. Had kinder +
etchin' weather up our way"
And with this return to general and
oiite conversation, the bargaining is over. t,
may be amusing, but is not inspiring or p
evating. Yet very much of the country
ade is full of this chaffering. If I have ;,
few acres of woodland to sell, the pur- b
laser spends an hour in impressing upon a.
Q his "idee" that it is scattered and
angy, and has been pirated upon, and
lat wood is "dull," with no prospect
its raising. If it is COW that ven
re in the market, the proposed pur-
aser is equally voluble of descriptive
ithets, far from complimentary "She
pooty well on in years" rather scrawny,"
ot much for bag"-and this, although
g may be the identical Devon of
? Short Horn friend If it is a pig
at l would convert into greenbacks,
is "fabby," "scruffy"-his '.pork will
Iste in bilin'." In short, if l were to
re the opinions of my excellent friends,
> purchasers, for truth, 1 should be
nfully conscious of having possessed
} most NANCY hogs, the most aged
VS., the scrubbiest veal, and the most OF
eased growth of chestnuts and oaks
III which a country liver was ever
icted.
FOR time, in the early period of my
yitiate, [ was not little disturbed at
SO damaging statements; but have
n relieved on tearing, by further expe-
ace, that the urgence of such lively =
ehoods is only an ingenious mercenary II
ice for the sharpening of bargain. -
while this knowledge puts me in good
per again with my own possessions, it
ly weakens my respect for humanity.