Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-29
TOM FINLAY,S HORSE.

Everybody i'm Galveston knows Tom
Finlay and his big bay trotiing horse
Sam. Finlay is a jolly sort of a man
who always makes the best of every
thing. He never allows himself to be-
como discouraged under any circum-
stances whatever. In fact, when he
meets with any reverse it seems to
have 4 stimulating effect upon him.
Not long since he WAS walking down
the Strand, the business street OF Gal
weston, when he met his friend Jim
Barnes. | may mention incidentally
that both Finlay and Barnes were cot
ton-brokers and members OF the cotton
exchange
Il say, Barnes. don't you want to
buy my horse SamP I'll let you have
him cheap"
"Why do you want TO sell himp'
''lm the first place, need money
We just got 10 have it. In the second
place. Sam is not quite fast enough to
suit me"
ii do want horse for my family
c; rriage. i he gcntlc?'
He is the gentlest horse You ever
saw. You can't make him run away.
There's nothing frisky about him."
Docs he kick?''
If he kicks I'll give you your mo-
ncy back. Why. you can't make the
horse kick =
How ABOUT shying?"
IF he ever SHES with You, Just come
round and I'll give you 5000
Don't he shy when the locomotive
passes him?'
Not an inch. I'd as soon expect
10 seethe locomotive fly off the track. "
"Will lie stand without tyingP'
He don't r,q lire any tying what
ever
II guess he's one of those horses
that eat their heads off in about a
month. expect he holds as much corn
as a corn-crIb, and it will about bank
rupt n man 10 feed him. That's the
way ii is with all these housekeeping
horses.
Nothing of the kind, No horse can
eat less corn than Sam"
How much do you want for the ami
mal?'
IN take 5000 If didn't have to
get rid of him money couldn't buy
him.
As this price was reasonable, Barnes
said:
'l'll go to the stable with you and
look II him. and If he comes up to
whit you say about him II take him.. :"
II he ,.oc>il't come up to what I've
claimed fer him. I'll not expect YOU to
buy him.
Together they went to the livery-sta-
bic, and the lirsl thing they saw in the
stable-yard was sam, lying on the
ground, stark and sttf. He had died
during The night of colo, as his owner
was well aware.
Now, Barnes. /" said Finlay there is
your horse. If nc does not come up TO
what | We claim Ill for him. is no sale.
| think you Will admit that he is about
us gentle rs ever horse gets to be. A
child can hold him in, and if he ever
SHES again Ill cit him. He does not
need tying. lie will not cost you much
for horS'-ieed. No horse can eat much
less than this noble ANIMAL
We'll, this is the worst sell that !
have experienced during the course OF
my whole. shall Insist on put
ting up the wine, but you just keep
quiet about it. l don't want to be the
only biz foul in Galveston. I'll sell
that horse again.
As they were waking away from
the stable, mnom should they meet but
Col. Wade.
well gentlemen, where are you 60
ing?' he ashcd.
I've just been 10 inspect my new
purchase. I've bought Fnlay's fine
bay morse Sam bought him to ac-
eon,m date F,uay. here. You can have
him II You want aim, y said Barnes.
''How n11ca no You want for himp'
Two hundred uollars. =
Wade thought that Barnes really
needed the money, otherwise he would
not sell the horse SO cheap, but bust
ness is busincSs. II Barnes had been
specializing in cotton futures and lost
it WAS no affair III his. He said: 'if
the horse is gentle and don't eat too
much may take him for $l75. pro-
yiding he will 90 in a wagon without
kicking"
Once more the procession formed
and moved toward the livery-stable.
When they got there four negroes were
busy putting Sun into wagon to re-
move him outside the city limits.
There. said Barnes. triumphanily,
81 knew he would go in a wagon with
out kicking. If you think he will kick
tickle him with Il straw.
Gentlemen. said the last purchaser
of Sam, there is ouiy one thing more
to be done, and that is 10 keep quiet
about this swini.e that it does not get
into the papers. -. i. er. S cctt, ia Gu
c0QO linles.