Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-27
MA sON JIM's BAY MARE.
Were the Camp Meeting Folks
Responsible for that Particular

responsible for that Particular
DECKER?
I New York Sun.
HosKspALx, Pa, Aug. 20.-"Pve come
all the wsy in from Canaan to git a little
Law. said man with horsewhip un-
der his arm, blue overalls in his boots,
and a gray, stubby beard on his face, as
he entered the Allen House reading
room Yesterday, where q number of
the bows were talking politics. "Mebbe
some O. YOU iellezs kin give me the cor
rect thing without me dlckerin' with
I lawyer.
The speaker was a well.known farmer
oftbe southern part OF the county. He
/ and his son Jim are noted for theu
Sharpness at a bargain and readiness
TO trade horses, cows, wagons, farms, or
ANYTHING that belongs to them, at any
and all times customer may present
himself. Jim lives on farm a mile
from the old mans.
aye see, boys" continued the speak
or. ''my boy Jim had a. bay mare that
he traded a yearlin' bull and cross
tooth harrow iur. She was good crit
ter an no mistake. wanted that mare
the wust kind, an made Jim a heap o
gnod offers fur her, but he wouldn't
bite. Last Wednesday he come to my
house kind o careless like, AMI sot
down on the front s'OOp. | was achop-
min kindlin' wood for mornin'. Jim
set there lookin' up an down the road
whistlin' the Sweet By and By kind o
10 hisself. When carried in my kind
lin | sot down on the stoop by him.
"'Jim, seq, you better let your old
father have that bay mare o yourn, SEE
|.
Jim had Jest started the second
verse OF the Sweet BY and By but he
whistled her all the way through afore
he answered me.
al ben thinkin' o lettin' you have
the mare, pap, SEE he, seems you got
yer heart sot on her so, SEE he, 'pervi-
din we kin git up dicker," SEE he.
Jim had been goin 10 camp meetln,
pootv steady for week back, an L
heerd he was gettin' serious. Tie hadn't
been whistliu' nothin' but hymn tunes
for two or three DAYS, an when he come
around so nice on the mare question i
made up my mind that me and the old
woman would see him jinin the mourn
ers lore long.
Jim | seq, Il kin stand eighty dol
lars ior the mare, seq i.
Jim looked up the road, and hum
med verse of Come We sinners, poor
an needy Then he SEE:
Pap, SEE he, Il know orter let YOU
1. al. e,,r thar, no
but YOU know I've refused double that
iOr her, seq he. An so he had, boys,
sure.
Jim" seq |, again. III think | could
raise the eighty about twenty more,
maxim hundred sez /; but that's all
| kin 10. Remember, Jim, ser |, that
I'm yer father, and I'm gittin' old, an
my hearts sot on that mare, seq |.
Plunged in a gulf oil dark despair,
hummed Jim, lookin' plump up TO the
skv. guess he got away with two
verses aiore he said anything to me, an
| didn't interrupt his singin'. Then he
seq:
Pap seq he, IN tell you what I'll
do. Give me hundred dollars, SEE he,
'aud throw in them two Berkshire pigs,
an the mare is yours SEE he, Jest as
she is
"a targain,' seq l. The pigs Is
yours, an I'll be down after the mare
tomorrow.
IL counted out the hundred, an give
i, to him. Tie druv the pigs home with
him. They was worth fifteen dollars
apiece, easy. could hear jim whist
lin Hold the Fort till he got half
mile away.
"'Jemima,' / seq to the old woman
Jemim,I neverthought Jim'd git pious,
did YOU? But I've got the bay mare,
an what the old boy Jim was thinkin'
of can't see. She's worth two hun
dred an fifty any day in the week. Re-
li.ion is maxim fool of JIM | then
sen
We'll, next mornin' early | went
down to Jim's to git the mare. Jim had
gone to town. l then went to see his
wife.
"Pve bought the bay mare, Nancy
seq.
"'Yes, know We have SEE Nancy,
GRIMM.
Where is she?"
"'She's down in the stone lot, SEE
Nancy GRIMM all over her face, more'n
ever.
81 thought it was funny that the mare
should be down in the stone lot, but |
went down to find her. Boys, | found
her. She was layin behind a big stone
heap, deader'n door-nail. went to
the house.
why, Nancy SEE |, the mare is
dead"
40, yes seq Nancy, laughin' as il
she d split, she died yesterday mornin
with collie
"Boys, for minute | was mad. But
then come to, and seq to myself, I'll
be glued il don't git the mares shoes,
any how. SO | went back to the stone
LOT to draw her SHOES off. Boys, Ill di-
vide my farm up between We II Jim
hadn't drawed them shoes hisself, an
the mares feet was bare as when she
was born.
"Now, | amt no ways mad at jim,
bows, for it was fair and square dicker,
an it shows there's stuff in him; only
he mought a lett the shoes on the mare.
What | want 10 know is, can't | git back
a, the camp meetin' folks some way Tor
damages? Ii il hadn't u ben Tor them
hvmn tunes Jim larnt at the meetin's
Ia ben lookiu' out fur him. But they
throwed me way Off my guard. The
way look at il is that the camp meetln'
society is responsible for me losln' my
hundred dollars and two tifteen-dollar
pics. Can't | git back at 'em Tor tres
pass, or false pretenses, or excessary
aiorr the Tact, or suthin'? Can't doit,