St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-03
SECRETS OF THE HORSE TRADE.
A Yankee Tells Hotr Circus Hcn Sometimes
Ufsa aud Sometimes fose

A Yankee Tells Hotr Circus Hcn Sometimes
Ufn ahd Sometimes fose.
800 you see that air boss stAndin' over
there by the peanut standln asked Bradley
vile farmer this morning. ''Wal. 1 just
went and bought him. aud now find that
rs precisely the same critter sold year ago
as good for nothin'. l bought him some
three years ago from some circus folks, but
be had different colored spots on him then.
found Jest now that the color had been
changed a trihe. Didn't yer know how them
circus fellers work 10 Wal, I'll tell YOU.
Il shall take the boss to New York again
next week, or II one Of them circus fellers
comes along sell TO him. They'll give me,
say S25 for the boss. Then they'll
take him 70 New York, send
him out to pasture 4 few weeks,
give him the best OF stable care, aud then
sell him for $50 to some farmer who never
bought Of them before, and who believes
these fellows don't keep nothin' but fine ami
mails. The farmer'n take him TO his ranch
up country few miles. The circus fellows
keep an eye on him, aud in few weeks Mr..
Farmer hnd's he's lost his boss. The critter
IS agin In the circus stables. his spots are
changed a little by clippin' and usin' some
kiud o stuff they have, and then he's sold
agin for $50. Once more he turns up in the
circus stables q month or two later and Is
sold agin. Sometimes they make over $500
on one poor old hoss.
''But there are times when they get left.
Now, last year had boss that had the
elnd staggers or suthin', and wasn't wuth
his oats. Wal, twas all could do to get
him 10 New York on the boat. / walked him
carefully up towards the circus stables. Then
Z got boy 10 ride him. Yer see, I'd just
been feedin' him up purity well on oats, and
ne wanted 70 60 like thunder. But held him
rntiliB sight % the stables.I met a stable man
and began % talk boss 10 him. had good
an, / said, but wouldn't part with him. He
offered me els, but / said wouldn't part
with the beast for three times that sum. Then
l began to confOund my luck in gittin' taken
ir on a wagon bargain that day. He told the
boy 10 drive on the nag a little, and chirrupec
to him. How he did Git away Ny stars,
thought he'd throw the boy! But the boy
held on with might and main and turned the
criter back. OF he went agin as spry as a
+ kitten. Thea he stopped little, guy leap,
and cleared twenty-five feet for the sidewalk,
the little feller elingin' on, skeered nigh on
t..r death. Agin he stopped little and
irembled, and thought my game was up, for
he old boy was agoin' 10 have another at
I tack, when the stable man shouted: ''He
Z amt quito right; but come now, old man,
7 III give you $40 for him." 'Done," said,
and the bargain was struck.
''The boss fell down gittin' 10 the stable.
I But the stableman didn't care; he'd use him
as I've told yer, and SO make money on
/ him.
They know how to work It, but they some
! times git left by Us old uns up here in New
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