Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1880-09-09
HIS SON JIMs RAY MARE
Were the Camp Meeting Folks Responsible
For That Little Dfeker.
From the New York sun

For That Little Dieker.
From the New York sun.
! HoNEsDALE, Pa, Aug. 20.-"I've
come all the way in from Canaan to
git a little law said man with a
horsewhip under his arm, blue over
alls in his boots, and a gray, stuhby
beard on his face, as he entered the
Allen House reading-ro room yesterday,
where number of the boys were talk
ing politics. "Mebbe O. you fellers
kin give me the correct thing without
me dickierin' with lawyer. -
The speaker was well-known
farmer of the southern part of the
county. He and his son Jim are
noted for their sharpness at bargain
and a readiness to trade horses, COWS,
wagons, farms or anything that be-
longs to them, at any and all times
customer. may present himself. Jim
lives on a farm mile from the old
mans.
"Ye see, boys continued the
speaker, ''my boy Jim had a bay
mare that he traded yearlin' 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, come to my house
kind o careless like, an sOt down
on the front stoop. | was a chopin
: kindlin' wood for mornln'. jim so,
there lookin' up an down the road
) whistlin' the Sweet BY ar,l By kind
o to himself. When | carried in IN,
, kindlin' sot down of the stoop b,
him.
''Jim,'' scz, ''you better let youl
: old father have that bay mare o
. yourn," sell.
Jun had jest started the SECOND
a verse of the Sweet By and By bu
he whistled her all the way through
afore he answered me.
D 81 ben O tEinkin' O. lettin' yor
e have the mare, pap" sed he, "seein'
you got your heart sOt OF. her SO, ,
/ sed he. ''pervidin' we kin git up
d dicker," sed he.
Jim had been goin' to camp meetin
r pooty steady for week back, an
heerd he was gettin' serious. HI
: hadn't been whistlin' nethin' bu
hymn tunes for two or three days
Il an when he come roun SO nice o.
e the mare question 1 made up m
o mind that me an the old woma
would see him jinin' the mourner
= fore long.
lie "Jim," sez, 81 kin stand eight
dollars for the mare" sez I.
1t jim looked up the road, and hun
N med verse of 'Come We sinner.
e poor and needy" Then he sez:
~ "Pa," sez he, 81 know / orter |,
W you have that mare for them figures,
es sez he, ''but yoa know I've refuse
n, double that for her." sez he. An
as so he had, boys, sure.
"Jim," sez 1 again, II think
I'd could raise the eighty and about twe
e. ty more, maxim hundred" SEE
he "but that's all kin do. Rememb'
,g Jim," sez l, "that I'm yer father, al
u I'm gettin' old, an my hearts sot {
e. that mare," sez /.
ny plunged in gulf of dark despair
u hummed Jim, lookin' plumb up
of the sky. 1 guess he got away wi
us two verses afore he said anything
vn me, an l didn't interrupt his singir
n Then he sez:
ad "Pap," sez he, "Fll tell you VIII
ng I'll do. Give me hundred dollars,
OF sez he, "and throw in them two Ber
in shire pigs, an the mare is yours
sez he, "just as she isl
en- IA BARGAIN" sez L. "The pigs
'as yours, an I'll be down after the ma
n tomorrow" sez L.
ow l counted out the hundred dollar
in an give it to him. He druv the pi
Is home with him. They were VOL
ch fifteen dollars apiece easy. l cot
OF hear Jim whistlln' ''Hold the fort
lly till he got half mile away.
-"Jemima," sez to the old WON.
"Jemima," sez l, 81 never thous
Il, Sim d git plous, did you? But L
~. I'M got the bay mare," scz 1 san wi
~ the old boy Jim was thinkin' of
>" ,, can't see. She's worth two hund,
w ~. and fifty any day IN the week, ~ s
..p Religion is maxim a fool of jim
nav '. seq L.
.n Well, next mornin' early l W,
~" ~ down to JiIn's to get the mare. j
ie had gone to town. l see his wife.
:. "Tve bought the bay mare, Nancy
" SCI
'n "Yes, l know ye have," sez Nan,
W. grinning all over.
i"' "Where is shc!'' sez.
'n. ~" "She's down in the stone lot,"
u" Nancy, GRIMM more ever.
, i thought it was funny that
':y mare should be down in the stone
I ~, but went down to find her. Bo
.,u. NV l found her. She was lynn behin'
"as 90 big stone heap, seader'n a door-n
.,' l went back to the house.
,nS I "Why Nancy" seq Z, "the
~" mares dead!"
I' IL, so, yes" sez Nancy, laughin'
n's hs if she'd split, ''she died yester'
os mornin' with the collc," sez she.
~" Boys, for minute l was M
ap Then come TO, and sez to mys
~, 81 "I'll be glued if l don't git the MAJ
-" shoes, anyhow, sez l. So "
Nv back to the stone lot to draw
al, AL, shoes off. Boys, I'll divide my {;
10y 1;.. up between We if Jim hadn't dra
Ivy .s. them shoes himself, an the ma
"'s feet was as bare as when she
born.
re- willing to Give Way.
On the Jefferson avenue line yes
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