The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-10-23
Juu,s BAY MARE.


lJlCkER
HoNEsDALE, Pa, Aug. 2o.--"l'vo cum all
the way in from Canaan to git leeltle law, %
said a man with a horsewhip under 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
a number of the boys were talking puitcs.
"Mebbe some o you fellcrs kin give me the
correct thing without the dickern' with a
lawyer"
The speaker was we'll known farmer of
the southern part of the country. He and
bis son Jim are noted for their sharpness at
a bargain and readiness to trade horses
cows, wagons, farms, or anything that be-
longs TO them, at any aud all times a Gus
toner may present himself. Jim lives on
a farm a mile from the old mans.
aye see, boys" continued the speaker,
any boy Jim had bay mare tina he traded
yedrlin' bull and a cross tooth harrow fur.
She was good critter an no mistake. l
wanted that mare the wust kind, an made
Jim heap o. good offers fur her, but he
wouldn't bite. Last Wednesday he came to
my house kind o. careless like, and set down
on the front stoop, was a chopin kind
lin wood for mnrnin.' Jim sot there a
lookin' up an down the road whistlin' the
Sweet BY an By kind o. to hiself. When
l carried in my kindlin' | sot down on the
stoop by him."
"Jim,' sez, 'you better let your old
father have that bay mare o. yourn,'" seq l.
"Jim had just started the second verse Of
the Sweet By an BY but he whistled her
all the way through afore he answered
me-"
81 ben thinkin' o. lettin' you have the
mare. pap sez he, 'been's you got your
heart set on her so,' SEE he, pervidin' we kin
git up dcker,'" sez he.
"Jm had been goin to camp meeIin'
pooty steady for week back, an heard he
was gittin' serious. He han't been whist
lin nothn' but hymn tunes for two or three
days, an when he came around so nice on
the mare question l made mp my mind that
me and the old woman would see him jinin'
the mourners 'alore long.
"Jim. KIN stand $50 for the mare"
sez /.
"Jim looked up the road and hummed
verse 0! Come ye sinners poor an needy"
Then he SEE:
"'Pap,' seq he, I'll tell you what I'll do.
Give me hundred dollurs,' sez he, 'an
throw in them two Berkshire pigs, an the
mare is yours" SEE he, Jest as she is
"'A ba-gaInr sez |. The pigs IS yours,
an I'll be down after the mare tomorrow"
sez l."
al counted out the hundred an give it to
him. He druv the pigs home with him.
They were worth SO piece easy. l could
hear Jim whsllin' Hold the Fort till he
got half mile away"
"Jemima," seq IN the old women, Je
mima,' seq |, Il never thought Jim'd git
pous, did you?' But I've got the bay mare
sez |; an what the old boy jim was think
in of cant see. She's worth two hundred
and a fifty any day in the week." sez.
Religion is maxim fool O. Jim sez |.
"Well, next mornin' early, went down
to git the mare. Jim had gone to town.
see his wife
"Ive bought the bay mare Nancy" sez,
ayes, know We have, sez Nancy grin
in all over her face.
"Where is she ?" ( sez.
"She's down in the stone lot" see Nancy,
GRIMM more'n ever.
| thought it was funny that the mare
would be down in the stone lot, but | went
down to find her. Boys, I found her. She
was lvin' behind a big stone heap. deader'n
door.nail. Invent back to the house.
"Why. Naucv.' sez l. "the bav mare's
dead /"
40. yes. sez Nancy. Iaurbin' as if she'd
IL, IL IL, 4,