The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-02-22
Horse Swapping IN Georgia.

Horse Swapping IN Georgia.
Did you ever attend & real first Tues
day horse swapper convention, and
wade around in the mud and listen to
the swagger and bluff INDUCED in by
the devotees of the boneyard? Did
you ever stand around and listen to
the hilarious greeting to one another as
they ride, drive, lead, drag and God on
ly knows how they do get some of their
rips into town? Did you ever take a
survey of the limping, hating cayalcade
of four-for-a-penny stock, of which you
can never see one so bad but that an
other is worse, all drawn up on first
Tuesdays to be snapped? Then, dear
reader, you can tolerate a brief pen
picture of a real horse-swapper's con-
vention, where liquid stimulants are
required to give CAB as well as cheek
to the trader Judgment is not SO
much required, as there is hardly a
bare possibility of loss in any trans
action that may occur.
How'll you swap?" cries one would
be trader with limping jade with both
bow legs and knock knees, and of such
stock the more man owns the poorer
he is.
Right" is the answer of another
trader with sway-backed, big-legged
shadow that couldn't chew lump Of
mush
Come this way and swop for the
gray mare. just nine years old None
of them are older than nine.) I want
to trade her for horse" And if such
a trade is made, in three minutes the
same man is shouting proposition to
trade that horse for mare or a mule.
Whips and spurs are in constant de-
mand to keep awake or induce a stir
among the stacks of bones that YEARLY
drag about on exhibition, where apology
is made for any defects that may be APP
parent. The spavin-legged, hobbling
skeleton Of horse, it is explained, fell
bridge'a few days previously
and slightly injured his limb, but of
course will be all right in day or two.
The swenied shadow is tender-footed, |
if bare, and pricked with nail, if shod,
while some better looking horse, doc
5ored up for the occasion, but which in
al probability is not worth the club it
would take TO knock him in the head,
s represented to be hopelessly afflicted
with every disease that horseflesh is
leir to. BY such representations, the
.eal condition of the horse is adroitly
and $50 back" as they call
t, for cheating, is stopped, because the
lorse was represented to have every
onceivable complaint, though his APP
did not indicate it.
All sorts of jeers were thrown out
nth the shouting of banters that are
card everywhere, such as, GLOW will
oq swap that race horse for pint of
,eanuts?" or "How much boot will you
i've between that stump sucker and a
zee course?"
These sallies are given good humor-
dly and received in the same spirit.
[orses are exchanged for pocket
hives, pistols, watches, sull1ies, dogs,
nything. Last Tuesday one man ex-
hanged his horse for COW, and sad
ling her up, he mounted and rode
round, bantering others for trade,
18th as much complaisance as ever.
And there is another wonderful fea-
Ire about this business. Every bone
ard trader, when his dozen trades are
ade and his days work finished, re-
lrns home at night to brag of what he
IS made during the day, but the most
tute ffnancier would be greatly puz-
ed to figure out his profits. Any man
would seem, could discover the loss
cident too and growing out of his 1
But this is a brief account Of business
/ the boneyards of Carrollton on each :
curing first MISREPRESENTATION,
a., Times.
The Price of ST liver.
takes the position that