The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-07
SELLING HORSES.
tPeeks Sun.l

Co0vlCtc1 Of tylng m morse uade. Ihi.
 IS the worst precedent it could be possi
 ble to establish in free America.
 every man who tells lie in a horss
 trade was sentenced to three months i'm
 prisonment, the public buildings, such a.
 halls, wholesale houses, skating rinks
 etc, would have to be transformed into
 prisons. If every man in Milwaukee wht
 has told lie in a horse trade were to b.
 imprisoned, the exposition building would
 not hold them without putting on an ad
 dition, and the proportion wosld be the
 same in the population of any othe,
 city or village. It is perfectly natural tc
 lie in horse trade, and men who thini
 their calling and election is sure for a
 glorious immortality beyond the grave
 have been known to lie terribly about
 horses they were selling. A man has a
 horse that acquires the heaves, aad he
 wants to get rid of the animal. He don,
 want the animal any more, and is anx-
 ious to sell al any price. He is an homes,
 man, as men go, and on a matter of any other business his word is good, and he would not cheat person for anything. And yet when a purchaser asks him what he will take for his family horse he laughs at the idea of selling, says he does not know where he could get another. and that his family would not consen, to selling the horse, and yet times are hard, and he does not know but he may sell the horse and not keep one this year. The cuss he has his eye on another horse that he would buy within aa hour after he sold the old one. The purchaser gets in to ride with the owner, and he drives the horse slow, when he has al- was bragged that it was the best road horse in town, and when asked to let him out little he says the horse is too fat, and the women have been driving him so long that he is regular pet. The purchaser takes hold of the lines and slaps the horse, and he starts up and trots for couple of blocks like a storm. and the owner knows that in another block he will begin to wheeze, so he takes the lines away from the customer and says there is no use talking, he could never consent to part with the horse. They go back to the house and the looks the horse over and asks if his wind is all right. and the owner sneers at the question, and says there is not better winded horse on four legs, and that there IS mot pimple on him and the customer offers him three hundred dollars for the family horse. The owner looks sad. says it is a mean trick for rich man to get stuck on a poor fellows horse, and offer him so much that poor man is almost tempted to sell, and then says, " No, I1i be darn ed if do-without l can make i, all right with my wife, and he goes into the house with tears in his eyes to ask his wife He says, placing his finger to his nose, :" Now, Marie, am going to sell that old horse with the heaves, and when the man leads him away, want you to come out on the front steps and cry. lust fairly beller, and have the children 20 into hysterics," and they both laugh. The man goes out again to the barn, where the customer is looking the horse over, and says he don't know what to do. His wife is in the house crying like a baby, and 1t seems as though he had rather lose his right arm, but the fact is. he owes three hundred and fifty dollars hat has got to be paid that day, and he does not know but he would take tha, amount for the horse. They finally split he difference on three twenty-five, and the customer leads away the horse, and his heart smites him as he. sees the wife and children on the front steps wringing heir hands and bellering." He is half ! mind to go back and return the horse, md he hesitates moment, when the man who has sold the horse sees that his customer is weakening. and he is afraid he tears and sobs of his wife may have he wrong effect. so he pulls his wife's iress and says, - Get in the house, you Ire overdoing this thing, and he may 'ring the old horse back" and they all 70 into the house, and the horse goes. The next day they are out driving with he new horse he has bought, and they meet the man with the old horse, and he tops them and says, By the way did his horse ever cough very much or show my disposition to have the heavesv The truly good man looks astonished, md says he never did, and asks his wife, md she tries to say the same, but has to wallow something, and then the little 'oy in the carriage says, 70, yes he did. | "a. Don tyou remember when you had l he veteran surgeon to see old Dick, and le said he had the heaves, and rever Eould get over ii, and you better sell him o some fool for eighty dollars. The wo menodrive on, and when they are eparated, the man who has sold the ound < old family horse," tells his wife he ought to know enough to choke tha, 'oung one.
 And that maa and woman 20 to church egularly, and they are pious, and they vonder if ,ad people, people who swear nd go fishing on Sunday, will not be foi their sins. There is some hing about selling a lame horse, or a 1 lorse afflicted in any manner, that makes he best man forget about the bad points f the horse and excuse them. and lie bout them, and yet, if he is buying a loEse, he can see more blemishes than anybody, until he owns the animal. The 'Ea hopes that the time will never come Then men who lie in horse trades will 'e sent to Jail. It would be terrible lone ome for few of us who never sold lorse.
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