Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-10
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aud It's Consequences.
| inserted the following advertise
ment in our village paper the other
dav:
VANTED-A small house for the season.
w Apply, etc.
and have had a great deal of soul
twisting sport out Of it. The compos-
itor, who works ina bait-factory five
days in the week, performed a notable
feat in recreation, by making a,
''horse" out of a ..house," and I've
been holding Tattersall's reception
ever since.
Before the paper was printed, the
top of a torn livery Stable bill-head
was handed in to me one,evening, and
following this Informal card came the
proprietor himself. Ere L could ex-
plain that it was a chalet and not
palfrey that wanted. he had preached
this enticing sermon:
''One r. tn Mirrors proof-sheets
Dlowed out tn winder, an seen into
it that you wanted small boss I've
got one that's smaller than Uncle lobe
Benham, an he's small 'nOugh t feed
seed catalogues to a shoat. SmallP
Why, I let her out t. other day
in village cart to old Miss
Welkia an she didn't know
more'n t. set right plum over tn axle.
When that fat tarrier of hern jumped
in behind, what does tn hull outfit do
h,,@ 1o, ~
boss, she came down fat on her saddle
jest tn opposite Of where she was, an
Miss Welkin shut up like deer-knife
tween tia seat an tn gutter
ventured to hint that | had NO idea
of buying horse, but the dealer evil
IDENTIFY thought this mere suhterfuge
to knock him down on price. and he
kept right on-
You needn't be 'fraid that she's toe
small, though" he said. She's tn
knowin'est thing you ever see.
1--WE got three sets of harness fer
her, each on 'em one size bigger than
t. other. When / let her out to Mr..
Freeson, the pars0n, she knows he's
kinder dign'fied, an she draws her.
self up, an stan's on tip-toes, an
swells out, SOS have t. put on num-
Der one.
Then when they's funeral, an
things is kinder av'rage ali round,
she's what yer call nominal, an num-
Der two goes; but when Sile Dyer hires
her t let bis rickety boy go up t Ken
sico for cider, you'd orter see her! She
sort'r shrinks all up, an draws her
legs in, an coughs jest as nat'ral as
consumption.
''Jest think how handy she'd be for
you round til place. She IL eat any
thin. Brigand. tn butcher, tells me
that you always run bit short toward
tn last of the week. That IS tn time
she'll haul in, an be contented with
p'tater-skins an old curl-papers. Then
when things gifts better. an you have
a fair dinner, she IL put on her mex
size. an 'dapt herself t. what lobster
salad an fixins you have left over; an
Mondays after tn Sunday dinner she IL
expand, an you won't have t. have no
refuse carts a-comin' inter tn yard.
She S sound an kind, Mister Gotman,
an afraid of nothin'."
Here was loop-hole of escape, and
I crawled through.
eff | bought horse" | whispered,
81 should like one just like yours; but
that last clause rather decides me not
to make a trade. AS my wife and chill
dren would probably drive it more than
] should (here edged him toward the
door,, | should have to insist on an
animal that is not afraid of any thing"
That's what I mean," he walled;
but [ pushed him out on the front
porch and locked the door-Puck.