New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-14
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planted very wide apart lie was S'dii"i"S ~
our seat and gazing through the WINDOW an ca
preston Of great enjoyment on his face. mere
fore turned my head and looked In the same
direction.
saw fat man with gripsack III MS nan"
running down the road, trying 10 eaten 'he i'''
car, which was sliding along by the station.
When the fat man was very near ne Stup''"
his toe and fell down spraying. the tram went
heartlessly on. Albert Snickered IN inuch e"Jos
ment As for me. would not have smiled peIo'e
that boy for any consideration under such g"
cumstances.
Why, Albert" exclaimed his sister. Il thought
you were at school,
"Hullo sis" was the response i dldh
think you were at school I'm playing hockey
Where you gons?"
ITO Boston"
som l. I'm going to lizards to buy morse
Amabel sat back in her seat with a desperate
calmness in he, manner.
That's just like you she cried.
"No. tjsn't either; never bought horse In
my life"
The boy did not look at either Of us His eyes
were rowing all over the car. He chewing
gum assiduousy
Lets make the best of it, | said sootnlngY
TO Amabei Let the boy go"
you'd better cause I'm going anyway
Albert ga, down on the arm of our seat and
swung one leg.
Amabe suddenly began to smile. her smile
Immediately changed to a laugh, and this laugh
actually appeared to disconcert her brother. lie
grew red in the face He slid down from the
arm Of the seat and muttered that he didn't
see anything so blamed funny. Then he walked
AWAY and we did not see him even When we
reached the station As we went up kneelahu-
st we said to each other that. after ALL Albert
had become sick Of it,"
It here occurs TO me that perhaps / ought to
explain that bot, Amabel and myself were ola
horsewomen. We had ridden more or less ever
stree were grown up. until within the last
vesr or two when circumstances had rendered
IL Impossible for us to have horses. Now, how
ever affairs were slightly different with us. And
we though: we knew horses well enough to buy
n couple Not that knew them No one
knows them Is not the jockey who conceives
himself to be an "ail-round judge" often dread
fully deceived?
And there is a quito bewitch.ng excitement IN
going to horse auction with modest sum Of
money wherewitha 10 buy modest steed. A
lottery il tame when compared with this eX-
perien.e. In a lottery you know, once and for
ALL whether you have drawn a prize or blank
In buying a horse you can never be quite GER
tain that you" blank won't some time turn out
prize. Are not often reading how soma poor
old plug has suddenly become a fast trotter? To
those who have bought horses, and bought poor
ones l need not dwell upon the fact that the
hope that some wonderful transformation will
some time be effected is a hope that takes a
great deal OF killing.
But YOU don't think Of anything like this when
you draw near to the auction mart. There is /
smell Of stables. extending as far the side /
walk. but II IS not strong odor, and is far from
being disaSreeablc ii is suggestive Of the pO5-
sibilitics of a lucky find in hOrsefesn don't be-
lieve that any one ever bought horse without !
q secret feeling. almost a conviction, that the /
seller OF il did no; know how very good it was |
but you, the buyer, would presently discover /
Years Of experience will not eradicate this weak /
ness. Perhaps it is not weakness; perhaps it g
the sustaining strength OF the horse purchaser /
the thing that buoys him up through experience
after experience. 1t last, as long as his money
lasts. and that is long enough to serve the pur
poses Of the dealer.
There was an odor Of tan and sawdus.. and
tobacco smoke also all growing stronger
came to the vi4e entrance and l must add that
the pools of dark yellow spittle grew not only
more frequent, but larger They not 50
large, however, but that could step over
them; and am not speaking of them in any
complaining spirit, only in a generally descrp
tive manner.
There We're some me1 strong about in a semi
dark interior: and heard from somewhere an
occasional stamping and whiCkerng.
We stood about in studiousy elegant and
aimless manner, waiting We had never been To
just this kind of a place before. bu, we knew
that it was strictly respectable, that the pro-
prietor2 were noted for thei~ fair dealing; and
we had heard that women came here. The slight
indehni,eness we felt as to the truth of the lat
ter statement lent n pleasurable uncertainty to
ain already uncertain undertaking.
Very soon a man cane from far off in the
dusk. We saw him coming long tim4. and his
form gradually deta hed itself from the gloom
grew into lare figure then to large figure
with a tail silk ha. or it's head and a thick yell
low chai. drawn across in tight manner from
one white waistccat pocket to the other 4 few .
Yards further toward and we saw a broad
face with yellow mdstache and pendulous un-
der lip. which left in constant, though limited
view the tops Of some dark under teeth.
In the next yard this man took off his hat; in
the next he had come to Amabers side and ha!
said: Good morning, ladies. What can do for .
you?"
am almost ashamed to acknowledge that I
could be prepossessed by man with hanging
under lip and the puffy face that belonged TO
this man but there something unmistak-
ably like a horse dealer about him. and ] am .
irresistibly drawn toward horse dealer. There
is a good nature. charming but loosely fitting
berevolence, ease Of manner that is not at all .
the ease of manner of the social world. and |
am so depraved that ike it-so Gepraved that
! even confess TO liking il. which, Amahel says. /
IL worse still
My friend replied that she came about horses. .
"Oh. yes; you have some here that TO be ,
sold to-day? You wish to withdraw them?
Ladies mostly do change their minds"
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