West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-06-12

with mo This horse | said. pvtting
biily.s neck, belonged 10 my father.
just before he died he madc me prom-
ise TO take good care of Billy, and
never on any account to sell him 10 A
horSe-dcalor. So I've done talking to
YOU; Then | put Billy back in his
stall and sat down in the office.
THE CoUNTRYMAN BITES
Tho capper argued with me for half
an hour trying to make me let him
have the horse, and the countryman
took II all in. | said that no horse
dealer could have Billy Then tho cap
per went out The countryman lcokcd
around for minute or two longer, said
nc didn't want TO pay that much for a
horse, and then went out, too Tho
capper was waiting for him.
See here now, he began. Can't
me and you do some business hercP
That just the kind of horse | want.
and he'd be cheap at $40 II YOU can
get him at Sli5 for me, III give YOU
$50 for yourself
"'All right, says the countrvman.
holding out his hand. Give me the
money
g" No, that wouldn't do, saws the
cappcr. Don't Won see the first qucs-
ton he'll ask you is whose money :
that' And he won't let you have the
horse unless you can say that the
moneys yours The countryman
didn't like the idea of paying out his
own money, but the twenty dollars
fetched him and he came back and
told me he wanted to buy Billy because
he couldn't find anything else that
suited him.
'Whose's moneys thatP' asked
him.
It's mine, he says, as boldly as il
he had had a clear con science
And you aint horSc-dealerP'
No says he.
Then Hlly's yours, says |. taking
the money Treat him kindly for nv
father sake You've got good horse
FOR little money. | wouldn't let him
60 SO cheap but my steamer sails to-
morrow. Then he started TO take Billy
to the place whore he thought the cap
per was waiting for him, and lie out
SOMEBODY BITTEN.
My men followed him. OF course
the capper had disappeared and there
was no one 60 give the countryman
back his money. SO hc had 20 keep
Billy The first thing man usually
does when he gets stuck on a horse like
that is TO 90 back TO the stable and
raise row But this countryman
didn't do anything of the kind He Just
whistlcd and kept right on. Presently
my two men came running into the lit
tie place where ! was sitting with their
faces rs white as chalk 'D'yo know
where Billy's gomez they cried TO
Mustang Jimmy's stabler
81 thought I'd faint never felt so
sick in all my life heard Yesterday
that 1t was Jimmy that put MP the lob
aud that they had brought on that
darncd countryman from St Louis lust
TO work the racket on me. All | got
for Billy was one hundred and forty-iivc
dollars, and he represented a steady
income OF at least slx-thOusand dollars
a year Why, he must have been worth
one-hundred-thousand dollars more
than Maud 5 or all the big horses put
together And ] had just paid fifteen
dollars for brand new force pump TO
pump water into him. too" The horse
dealers grief ovcrcame him at this
point, and he buried himself silently in
memories Of the valuable and accom-
plishcd Billy.
''Was there ever such horse as
Billy asked the reporter when he
dared to interrupt the sacred commun-
Ing- of grief
The horse dealer raised his head and
looked meditativcly at his cigar.
Whether there was or not there ought
TO be, he said. "And I'm mighty sure
that I'd like to have horse like that.
and I'm sure that have one like that
now. ~ y Heruia