The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-25
HE DIDN'T LOOK As If HE'D LIE,
And Yet he Told a Tale OF Tin Pail That
Mna Remarkably Indeed.

And Yet he Told q Tale OF Tin Pail That
WINS Remarkable Indeed.
He was sitting on the lower forward deck Of
ono of the Staten Island rapid transit ferry
boats. lie was an old man, with serious
expression in his gray eyes. and his mouth
above his snowy beard WAS thin and tightly
closed. He did not look at all like man who
would Joke upon any subject. He did not look
like a man who would lie unless there was
money to 10 made BY so doing. Yet the follow
Ing is truthful account OF what he said to an
acquaintance who came and sat near him.
There we're several horses on the boat, and
few words concerning one OF them gave the
old man a chance to unburden hts mind This
is how he did 1t:
Yes, sir: talkin' OF horses reminds mo OF
suthin that happened to me tother day when
was out rdln' with my little boy. We was in
my buggy an ! was drivin' that old marc o.
mine. You know that old mare. I've he'd her
now goin' on six year. Never was a kinder
animal in harness than that mare. She amt
got no bad tricks an she never he'd. My old
woman has driv hor ever sence | got her, an
She never he'd no trouble o no Kind with her.
Well sir wasirlyin her.aS was a-sayin' with
my little boy last Thursdny afternoon. Remcm-
Der what IA shOwery day 1t was last Thursday
Well one o them shower. come me up when was
shelter SOS the boy wouldn't get wet i!nko
her 20 iaTor pop; says in my iit h, boy an hit
hurry her M. first thing you know slo
was goin' at a two-ioriy gait, an i leant
buck an, pu. the WHIP Away INA jest then We
road an somehow or other the handle
Of the bqcks; got eSggat T9n3a one q the
round with IL II made the durndeet clatter |
ever did hear. an it liked 10 have scarf the vita
clean out q that there mare. She jest laid back
solf for all she knowed how. 60! never seed
tho Ike in my lie she lest whizZed along an
evory tine that old tin huo kct pounded the
Got my little boy didn't oil me to irlyn no faster
then, lie waa ns scarf rs tho mnre took
him he,wcon my knees m holt onto him tight
uenrd II it hednt ben that tho tin pail fetched
loose ron the wheel an went IMhiZzin' by
dIrued il ii didn't Mt her in ths hank an keIch
onto her tail an stick there That's what 1t
did. Then abe did go. p'yever see any race
close hontt Nell they wasn't a circumstRIce
10 tho way that marc o mine run last Thurs,
day She got right down close 20 the ground
express on down grade with all the brakes
wide omen. TIE ~ bucket kept swingIn from
tdS t. sd an her on ft URS nhs an
do reckon sho was a-goin most mile min
ute when at last the bucket broke loose from
hor tail. Then got fresh hold on the lines an
a-trOtting Jest as nice az easy as you plense.
1t was tho qnecreet thing that eyer han-
s.drivn md don't want ant notHin' ike il to
hnupeu again. The next time ste q tin pail
nj IN, in t1s T"nd yqH Ein H%t II o give I'VE i
the $40, ! III Int think Wa was much past
Cow i,aHGh ! reckon we'd better be
And the. I'D man shut his lips close together
again and was lost in tho crowd which was
to GS up sG ES from ne Stsry
standing stock still gazing after him aud shak-
Ing his head SLOWLY from side 70 side.