Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-07

morning III 0fueF 10 run SteePy
David against some Of your South
ern bosses. ] amt Joking, sir;
I'm in airnest. l understand there's
purse of two thousand dollars,
and l should like amazingly to pick
it up.7
"You talk of picking up purse
of two thousand dollars with that
bit Of carrion of yours! Away
with you, and don't trouble us any
further
"Wcll, if can't run. then l
s'pose / can't but it's darned hard,
anyhow, for man to take so much
pains as | have to come to the "a
ces, and then can't be allowed to
run, arter ALL
ats too late now; by the rules of
the course the horse should have
been entered yesterday; however,
if You plank the entrance money,
perhaps you may get in yet
l said this by way of getting rid
of the fellow, having no idea he
could command n fourth of the sum
required.
GLOW much might the entrance.
money be.' said he, drawing out a
purse containing few shillings in
silver and few pence in copper.
"If it amt more'n a quarter of a
dollar or so, I'll plank it on the
nait.'
lit is two.hundrcd dollars
1.-Two hundred dollars" exclaimed
the Yankee. "By gauly, what a
price! Why, they axcd me only n
quarter of a dollar to see the cle-
plant and the whole caravan in
New York. Two hundred dollars!
Why, you must DO joking now.
Bless me, my whole load of tin.
ware, boss, wagon and all, wouldn't
fetch that. But, mister, don't you
think could get in for ten dollarsT
"Nothing short of two hundred
and that must be paid in the shor,
space Of five minutes
We now thought we had fairly
got rid of the fellow; but he return
ed to the charge, and asked if fifty
dollars wouldn't do, then seventy
five, then q hundred; and, finding
he could not make bargain FOL
less than the regular sum, he en-
gagged to give it, provided he coul'
, find any one TO loan him the money
for which he offered to pawn hi
wagon.ioad of notions and Sleep,
David to boot.
He asked one, then another, I
accommodate him with the loau-
: declaring that as soon as ever h
took the purse the money should b
. returned, and he would give do7
: en- tin whistles in the bargain. He
however, got more curses than col
:, pers, until some wag, who ha
! plenty of cash, and likdc TO see tn
y sport 60 on, loaned him the Z"
hundred dollars out OF sheer malice
; though, as it afterwards turne
U out, the Yankee had money enUug
about him, and was merely playiD
the 'possum all the while.
His next object was to borrow
y saddle. Here, also, he WAS accoinm'
!, dated; and, taking Sleepy DaNi
u from the tin cart, he scrambled III
n on his back and took his station u
u the course. You never saw te
= low sit so awkwardly in all your llf
:, Everybody said he would fall befoI
u he had gone a hundred yards: an
some, out of compassion, urged bi
,, to withdraw.
u "Not by a darned sight e
u claimed he; "why, do You think L
- such a darned fool as to pay tv
70 hundred dollars, and then not II
u arter all!7
Others, who wanted to see u
7. sport, though it should cost son
m broken bones, encouraged him
nr proceed, saying, as they laugh'
aloud, that they had no doubt b
- he would carry of the purse.
w "That's what | mean to do sa
or he. III hain't come here for nothin
Is | can tell you.-Wake up heI
m Sleepy David, aud look about 70
10. YOU must have your eyes open
o,s day; it's no time to DO snoOzin' VIII
pt. there is money at stake
kc The horse, as if he undcrsto
,st what his master was saying, opt
To ed his eyes and pricked up his ca
az actually showing a little more 81
I of life.
The signal was now given
I start. Away sprang Southr'
to with the speed Of lightning, a
or. away sprang the other Sonth'
he horses, leaving Sleepy David far
at the rear, and the pcddler surg