Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-26
DAIDIDYS hoy.

VI
sippl lived a man VINO made horse trading
IA business. lie bought up horses for
a city market, AMI was considered pref
ty good on Il trade
One day long lean, queer. green
looking specimen of the Western coun-
try arrived at the dock with boat load
of horses. He inquired for the horse>
jockey.
Daddy sent me down with some
horses. he said III half idiotic tone.
Who $ he Z"
Daddy"
"Wha, do you want for your horses2"
8 Daddy said yon could set yure
price was the response
= let me go down and look at your
horses saId Brown, and accordingly |
they were soon at the boat.
Brown examined the horses, and |
named the price he would i've for this
one and that, and the country bumkin |
made no ot jcciion. although some of
the offers were not more than one, half
the real price Of the animals One of
the bystanders geutly suggested 10 the |
countrymun that he was being cheated, |
bu he returned
:" Daddy said Brown would set the |
price himself" aud So Brown had it all |
his own way.
At last they came to another animal |
which DID not look much superior to
the rest.
must have more for thai anermel,"
said the fellow. Daddy says he can
| run somc"
Run" said Brown, "that nag cant
run worth cent
Daddy said SO, and daddy knows"
vi BY. We got one up TO the stable |
that would beat it all to hollow"
= Guess not, -aid the fellow Lets |
try EN- Iii be, the whole boat load OF
horses on 'inl.
Brown smiled
i" | II be- five thousand dollars against
your boat load . said Brown winkine 10
the crowd, ard these men selecting |
two shall hold stakes"
Brown five thousand was inirus-
ted to one. and the otter went on board |
The horse boat.
One Of the crowd started to remon-
~trate with the poor idiotic fellow, but
he only responded +:
GolIy . dad told me he could run
some, aud daddy ought TO lose 'em if
he was sich tarnaI fool as to tell me
that when he couldn't"
Brown's sleek racer was brought
4. him frba /
canntryman lead olt his amin Il and !,
climbed on his back, lookin. az uncouth
and awkward as the horse he proposed
To ride.
The worl was given and they started,
midst the lau.hte of the crowd. At
first Brown was ahead, aud 1t looked as
though the poor fellow was 10 be badly
beaten when suddenly his horse plung-
ed forward aud the horse jockey was left
far behind. Snch going had not been
seen IN those parts for long tme, an /
poor Brown was eresttalcn, as the
cheers Of the bystundcrs fell on his
ears
III take the spondulix, said the
conntryman, riding up. " Daddy was
right The anermal can git round a
little
Brown tried to say it was all Joke,
but the fellow would have his money
Il guess [ won't trade to day." he
said, aS he put it in his old, rough.
leather pocket book. Ell 20 back to
daddy"
In vain Brown tried to induce him to
trade, but he pushed off his boat. reso
lutely saying, I'D better go back aud
tell daddy !"
Brown was completely "sold," for he
knew at once that the green country
man was a leeHe shrewder than the peo-
Pile imagined him, aud had just come
there purposely to win his money from
him
Next time he did not ridicule horse
that daddy" said " could run some.
Who has so succeeded in Initiating
Shakespeare as to remind us of him by
even so much as the gait of single
verse? Those magnificent crystaliza,
tions Of feeling and phrase basatic
masses. molten and interfused by the
primal fires of passion, are not to be
reproduced by the slow experiments OF
the laboratory striving to parody crea>
tion with artiice. LoweH
It is said by tho Oriental that when
aims fall from The hand of the giver
into those of the receiver they say these
five things :" am small, but thou
hast made me great My value was