The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-02-28

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Henry Clay made, as an awkward
boy, his first speech, it being on "Eman-
cipation." Very few know that Clay's
first speech was on this subject Clay
was a good talker afterward and spoke
frequently, turning many away some
times.
Daniel Boone was not 90 good an off
hand speaker, but used to kill Indians
IN defiance of the game laws of Ken
lucky up to the time of his death.
Colonel Craddock is chiefly noted as
being the first man to welcome Colum
bus on his arrival in this country and
to suggest the possibility of bringing
dagoes to New York for the purpose
OF supplying policemen with freshly
roasted peanuts.
So he is identified with much of the
history of our country, and yet seems
to be almost in his prime. He never
misses a sociable Or political conven-
ton, and a pink tea on the Rue St.
HonOre in Paris never becomes up
rOarious till he comes.
He is C, rtainly a very interesting
man. He writes a good deal for the
Kentuckjan, besides interviewing all
the great men who pass through the
city. His memory is said to weigh
four ounces more than those Of B T.
Butler and D 4niel Webster combined.
If happily welded, I see no reason
why he should not make some woman
a happy wife. He does not object to
youth and inexperience. He has
enough himself for both and is a large
cyclOpedia in a revolving chair.
Colonel CraddOck knows as much as
l thought l knew when l vas 20 years
old, and | can say no more than that.
He told me about a Cincinnati man
who bought a high bred horse recently
with a pedigree that went back to a
team that Noah used to drive when he
was doing his hauling from the saw
mill to the dock where he was building
his boat.
By and by the Cincinnati man felt
unable to keep such a valuable horse,
and offered him for sale to a Kentuck-
ian who knew the herdbook.
The Cincinnati man produced his
pedigree, which was as follows; Bay
horse Blue Grass, foaled in 1887, sire
Black Sampson, dam Young Phyllis;
Black Sampson, by Breastplate, dam
Lady Wake; Young Phyllis, by Blue
Jeans, dam Matte J; Matte j, by
Cyclone Wilkes, dam Miss T0rmentor;
Miss Tormentor by TuscarOra II, dam
Ada V; Breastplate, by Frank, dam
J~eIlico; Jellico, by Bucephalus, dam
Princess; Bucephalus, by Sir William,
dam Eulalia.
The Cincinnati man said: 1--WE will
go around and see the horse" and they
did so. The Kentuckian shook his
head.
Your horse has a strain of vulgar
blood" he said. Notice, he eats like
a horse that has lived and lunched cut
of a nOsebag like a cab horse. He has
no refinement. lean pick out a horse
hat has had good parents and been
brought up tenderly. That horse has
been belted around the stall with the
back of a currycomb, and he is a jay
horse"
"Well, he is not, begging your par
don. He only needs to point to his
pedigree, which I bought him on large
ly. Read it, and you will find 60
break in the title. l bought him Of a
Kentuckian who knows horses"
This Kentuckian glanced over the
pedigree and said: There is some
thing singular about this pedigree. 1
know all these names; but, you see
Black Sampson, when he was alive,
was a jackass. Of course we cannot
tell where he went when he died. This
is no time to raise the illogical questions
and get the whole presbytery after you.
Young Phyllis was a southern COW.
Breastplate was q southern bull. Lady
Waxy was a saddle horse. Matte J. is
a passing mare. Tuscarora IL is gray
mule on Four Mile. Ada V. is a steam
boat on the Kentucky river. Frank is
a yellow dog in Simpsons livery sta
BILE, and Jellico Is an old mare mule
that runs extra on one of Browns coal
carts"
In the language of the poet:
1t is not all of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.
BILL NYE.