West-Jersey pioneer., 1883-02-08
PAYING DEAR FOR A BUGLE.

Forrest GrGUeS.
PAYING DEAR FOR A BUGLE.
''Mr. Hoffenstein, F" said Herman, as he
folded up a pair of pants and placed
them on pile, ''if you don't haf any
objections, l would like to get from the
store away Won efening, und go NIT de
soldiers to de Spanish fort"
"Vell, Herman, dinks you had better
keep away from de soldiers" replied
Hoffenstein, ''und stay nit de store, be-
cause, you know, you don't can put any
confidence NIT de soldiers. l will dells
you Why Won day vile l vas in Vicks-
burd during the var, cock-eyed soldier
comes to my store in, NIT an old bugle
in his hand, und he looks around. asks
him vat he wants, und he puys couple
of undershirts. Den he tells me to keep
his bundle and de bugle behind de coun-
ter until he comes back. After the cock
eyed soldier vent de door out, some
more soldiers come in and walk arount
vile dey look at de goods.
'Shentlemens," l says, ''do you want
any dings?"
''Ve are chust looking to see vat you
haf got" says one of dem, und after
avile anodder says:
bill, chust look dere at de bugle-de
very ding de captain told us to get. You
know we don't haf any bugle in de COM
pany for dree months. How much you
ask for dat bugle?"
II dells dem dot I can't sell de bugle,
because it belongs to a man vat shust
vent out.''
II will gif you $50 for it," says de SOL
dier, pulling his money out.
Il dells him don't can sell it, because
it wasn't mine''
II will gif you $780," he said.
''My gr-racious Herman, | wants to
sell dot bugle SO bad dat vistles. De
soldier dells me vile dey vas leafin de
store dot if buy de bugle from de man
vat owns it, dey will gif me $125 for it.
1 dells dem I will do it. l sees a chance,
you know, Herman, to make some
money by the operation. Ven de cock
eyed soldier comes back, he says"
''Get me my bundle and bugle, I got
to go to camp"
Il says, My frient, don't you want to
sell dot bugle.'"
He tells me no, und l says, my little
poy, Leopold, vat plays about de store,
sees de bugle, und he goes all around
crying shust as loud as he can, because
he don't got it. Six times I dakes him
in de yard und Whips him, und he comes
right back und cries for de bugle 1t
shows you how much drouble a man will
haf nit family. l viii gif you $40 for
it, shust to please little Leopold"
''De soldier Won't take it, und at last |
offers him $50, und he says:
''Vell, will dake $50 because l can'tl
waste any more time; 1 haf to go te,de
camp"
und Afa5ff5hes 5fG hhs fof de soldiers vat van1ea
de bugle. I sees dem passing along de
street, und l say::'
"My frients, haf got de bugle; und
dey say:''
ven, Wy uOH you plOW IL!
MY ga-racious! Herman, vat you
dinkl All dem soldiers belong to de
same crowd, und dey makes de trick to
swindle me. Levi Cohen, across de
street, he finds it out and efery day he
gets more ash a hundred poys to plow
horns in front of mine store, SO as to
makes ME dink how was schwindled.
Herman, dinks you had peter stay
NIT de store"
THE TERM 'THoRoUGHBRED." This
term thoroughbred is at present being
used in the most absurd connections,
but is, without doubt, often improperly
applied, simply because many people
have not proper conception of its true
meaning. We hear this one calling a
bull or COW thoroughbred; and an
other using the same term in connection
with pig or sheep. This is fragrant
and unmerciful abuse of the term, and
there is no surer way of a man to dis
play ignorance than by using the ex-
preston in this way. The term thor
oughbred belongs only to the race-horse;
the word was first applied only to
horses in Great Britain, bred expressly
for racing purposes and was adopted as
the name of the breed, and is still used
for this distinctive purpose
When one speaks of a thoroughbred
horse, an intelligent horseman under
stands at once that the race-horse means
the running horse, not the trotting
horse. No horses are recognized as
thoroughreds that do not show an un-
| broken line of ancestry, to animals re-
] corded in the English stud book In
| America, we have Bruce's stud book,
which is the standard authority. No
horse in the United States is regarded as
thoroughbred who is not found recorded
in Bruce's stud book. No intelligent
horseman will speak of thoroughbred
trotter, or thoroughbred draft-horse,
since as before stated, the term belongs
only to one particular breed, which is a
distinct family by itself, and whose
blood has been kept pure and free from
taint, for more than one hundred and
fifty years. l pen these brief and dis
jointed remarks in the hope that some
of our readers who talk about thorough
bred trotting- horses, pigs, bulls or sheep,
will cease doing so in the future.
England Farmer.
SILENT MEN.--Washin never made
speech. In the zenith of his fame he
attempted it, failed and gave it up con-
fused and abashed. In framing the con-
stitution of the United States, the labor
was entirely performed in the committee
of the whole, of which Washington was
the chairman; he made two speeches
during the convention, however, &C