Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-22
1 OATS WAN FED WITHIN !

On driving through the streets Vet occa- sionaily laid back and went through the gy- .rations and mRnoeuvTes of man driving 8 high spirited, 2:4O animal, whom it was diff cult to control In conversation he would
 always speak of him 8 noble steed of eX- traordinary speed, and of such surpassing
 qualities that an offer of $500 for him would
 be no temptation. A gentleman once seeing
 him beating this high blooded animal unmer- cifuijV in the street in front of his house opened the window and called out. Potter, I won't stand here and see you beat your horse so." ''Draw In your head then" re- torted Vet Vets horse was variable beast. The horse of the last season was not the horse of the present. When his horse died he was wont to replace him by new
 purchase with funds contributed by an ever
 sympathizing public On an occasion or thls kind he called upon William Welch' who kept livery stable on Grand street, saying. MT
 Weloh I've lost my horse-a splendid animal and want twenty-five cents from you to beIp ne to get another. l must raise i've dollars from my friends. never could buy a tip top, first class horse short Of i've dol lars!' On training days he sometimes annearsd on the Green with the joke stick. This is a game now obsolete. According to memorv it is about this: The implements are first, stick about six inches long and half an inch in diameter, at one end of which is tackled piece of sole leather, circu- lar shape ana say AVo AuCuCS HI uiaA1csoI' The leather end is placed over a small circu lar hole of nearly the same diameter and about three inches deep, scooped out of the ground. Three cents are then put on top of the stick by the owner. A small club ls pro vided and parties wishing to play contribute a cent throw, standing about rod distant The object is to throw 8 light club so that when the small stick is hit the cents will fall into the hole and in that case they belong to the party casting the club.
 In his last days Vet went from door to door begging to eke out his miserable exis tence. and he would say, Sylvester IS very poor and suffering. You won't have him mueh longer. Give to the poor fellow while you have the opportunity or you'll be sorry when he is gone" We believe there are no such wretched people in our day; no such poverty stricken and low, degraded neigh parts of our city, as Slineyville and that around the grog shops and low sailors board ing houses near the head of Long Wharf. There has been a general lifting up of our lowest strata.
 In those days were town wags-lndiv1dua who through long life scattered their jokes and witticisms to be repeated from one to the other; for instead of the morning paper to occupy people in reading of the accidents and crimes of population of fifty millions, or of big earthquake yesterday in the ls- lands of the Indian archipelago, they would indulge in sociality. Among the wags Wno started at that period was the bass drummer of the Grays' band, Bill B." then yonng man. who scattered witticlsms iohR iAe through. pompous, eorpulens cl.lzen passing on an occasion by hlm, Dy.sta1oea ,, incurred, "Who is he ?' ''The Hon. Mr. o.'