The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-12-03
THE GENERALS BUGGY.
How old 8orrell Took It Home
and to Heart.

For years and years that same old sor-
rell horse and modest. though substantial
buggy, has safely borne Gen Geo. X. Smith
to and fro through the city. That here
ia probably the most conservative, steady
and reliable animal that ever vas hitched
to shafts He is grave and digni6ed in his
WAYS, and no amount of coercion can make
him hasten that senatorial stride with
which he measures slisisnce. When the
General gets out to drop into some store.
it is not necessary to tie that horae. lie
knows his business. and improves the time
by thinking. He 10 fond Of meditation,
and will stand for hours, With his eyes
closed, and think how he and the G.neral
built up Sedaiia.
Last week the General bought new
buggy. This unheard Of departure came TO
old sorrels ears in the stable, and he shook
hi- head in vigorous disspproval Of such
reckless evtravagance. He began to ex-
hibit vague suspicion that his master
was getting reckless, and had about made
up his mind to s,ep around to the front
door of the house and see about il, vhen
they came after him to put him in the
buggy. Old sorrel took . sharp look At il
to see il it Was the old reliable vehicle that
he was used TO, and stepped into the shafts
satisfied. He was driven down to the car
riage shop and taken out and led around
to the back Of the building. Then the old
shafts were taken of ard put on the new
buggy and old sorrel dex,rously backed
into them without seeing the new tangled
concern"
The old familiar jerk Of the reins sig.
nailed all aboard. and he. the buggy and
the General in It, moved solemnly up the
street, creating the most intense astoni.h.
ment.
"Why, Gen. Smith has . new buggy!"
Before he had gone half block fourteen
harness makers had spotted him, and each
secured contract 10 make new harness
to 60 with the buggy.
The old sorrel looked back and sav hov
it vas. He grosned 20 sorrowfully that
the druggists crowded the harness maker
away to cell him horse medicine.
At the end of the first block liz tailor
had measured the General for suit of new
clothes 10 60 With the buggy, and the pro
prietors Of the WOODEN mills gave orders q
run on double time to meet the demand.
In the second block n builder and archi
tec,s stopped the General to show him plan.
for 500, 600 mansion. nov that he had
got . new buggy; but the furniture mer
elbowed in and drowned the clamor Of the
builders in expatiating on sofsa, bedsteads
chairs and tables, and old sorrel wept.
A little further on, 2lS ministen gath
cred around for lots to build new churches
while widow women and orphans reached
out TO him from the tops OF tn
telegraph poles. Wm. p. JACK
.on climbed over the top of the buggy viii
. silver mine in each hand the liKhtnini
rod men and book agents ha just got in,
when the General spranG out Of his buggy
and made his escape home, from the abom
Unable pests across lots.
Old sorrel broke the jaw Of On INSURANCE
man with . kick, and then started Cd -
fast % he could after his master.
When old sorrel got home he found the
General sitting on the fence waiting 70
him.
II told you 20. said old sorrel, reproaeh.
fully, and he sadly meandersd into th'
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