Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-17
HIS son JIM'S BAY MARE.
We're the Camp Meeting Folks Re
SponsibIc for That Particular Dick
Nav n nrk SIM

i horsewhip under his arm, blue OVER
ais in his boots and gray, stuhhy
beard or his face, as he entered the
Allen House reading room, yesterday,
where number of the boys were talk
ing politics. "Mebbe some o you fell
lers kin give me the correct thing with
out the dickerin with Il lawyer
The speaker was well-known farm
or of the southern part of the county.
He and his son Jim are noted for their
sharpness at bargain and Il readiness
10 trade horses, COWS. wagons. farms,
or anything that belongs to them, 1T
any and all times customer may pre-
sent himself. jim lives on n farm il
mile from the old mans
"Ye see. bows continued tho speak
cr, my boy jim had bay mare that
he traded yearlin bull and a cross
tooth harrow fur. She was Il good crit
ter am no mistake. | wanted that
mare the wust kind, an made jim i
heap o. good offers fur her but he
wouldn't bite. Last Wednesday lie
come to my house kind O careless like,
and sot down on the front stoop. | was
Il chopin kindln' wood for mornin'.
jim sot there lookin' up an down the
road whistlin the Sweet BY and BY
kind O to hisself. When ! carried in
my kindlin' Sot down ON the Stoop by
him.
Jim, scz you better let Your old
father have that bay mare @ yourn,
SCI L
" jim had Jest started the second
verse of the Sweet BY an By, but She
whistled her all the way through after
he answered me.
~ ben thinkin q lettin' you have
the marc, pap, sez he 'pervidin we
kin Git up dieker, scz he,
- jim had been goin' 20 camp mectin.
pooty steady for Il week back, an |
necrd he was gittin serious He hadn't
been whistlin nothin' but hymn tunes
for two or three days, an when he come
around 50 nice on the mare question |
made up my mind that me am the old
woman would see him iinin' the mourn
ers aforc long.
"',im, ! kin stand $40 for the marc,
sen /.
Jim looked up the road and hum
med verse Of Come We sinners, poor
an need. Then he SCI;
"'Pap, SCI he, know orto let YOU
have that mare urthem figures, seq he,
but YOU know I've refused double that
for her, scz he. An SO he had boys.
sure.
"'Jim, sez | again, | think could
raise the eighty about twenty more,
maxim n hundred scz | but that's AL
kin do Remember jim, seq |, that
FIN yer father, and I'm gittin' old, an
my hearts got OH that mare, sez l.
Plunged in gulf Of dark despair.
dummed Jim, lookin' plump up 70 the
sky. Igucss he got away with two
verses aforc he said anything to me,
an didn't interrupt his singin'. Then
he seq:
Pap, SCI he, Ill tell you what LII
do Give me Il hundred dollars, sez
he, and throw i'll them two Berkshire
pigs. an the mare Is YOURS -"
lest MS she. isl. SCI |. The pigs is
yours, an I'll be down after the mare
tomorrow scz !.
II counted out the hundred an give
It to him He druv the pigs home with
him. They was worth SIS apiece
easy. | could hear Jim whisthn' Hold
the Fort till he got half 4 mile away.
'Jemima, ser to the old woman.
jemima, seq l. lncvcr thought Jim d
cit piouS, did you? But I've got the
bay mare, seq an what the old boy
Jim was thinkin' Of can't see. She's
worth two hundred an fifty any day in
the week, | sez Religion is maxim il
fool q Jim sez l.
We'll, next mornin early | went
down to Jim's to git the mare. Jim
had gone to town | see his wife.
Eve bought the bay mare Nancy,
sen
Yes, know you have, sez Nancy.
GRIMM all over her face
Where is she?' | sen.
She's down in the stone lot, sen
Nancy, GRIMM moren ever.
IL thought ii was funny that the
marc should he down in the stone LOT,
but | went down to find her. She was
layin' behind big stone heap, dead
erin door-nail. | went back to the
house,
Why, Nancy, SCI |, The bay
mares dead?'
40, yes seq Nancy, llaughin as If
she'd split She died yesterday mornin
with the collie, sen she.
Boys for minute was mad Then
come to, and scz to myself, I'm be
glued if | don't git the mares shoes.
anyhow, sez /. 50 went back to the
stone lot to draw her shoes off. Boys.
II divide my farm mp between yc if
lin hadn't drawed them shoes hisself.
IN the mares feet was as bare az when
She was born.
Now, amt no ways mad AT Jim
boys, for ii was fair and square dick
er, an il shows there's stuff in him
but he mought Il left the shoes Oh Tie
mare What | want to know is, can't
| git back At the camp meetin' folks
some way for damages? If il hadn't
been for them hymn tunes Jim larnt
At the mcetins I'd ben lookn out
fur him But they throwed me way
off my guard The way look at il is
that the camp meetin society il re-
sponsble for me losin' my hundred
dollars and two fifteen-dollar pigs.
Can't | git At them for trcsspass, or