The herald., 1897-08-17
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we overheard this conversation:
Put the harness on the bay horse an
hitch 'er to the pha't'n."
Bay horse s a red horse amt it,"
"Yes"
Uncle Aaron turned to me with a ges-
ture of despair.
That's all some folks knows about
color in hosses. Bay hoss s red hoss-
yes! Now yander's fine, perty, bright
bay hoss. They's four bays-light bay
dark bay. an bright bay, an then
they's dapple bay. Then they's brown
an sorrel-they's three sorrel colors, too
light sorrel, dark sorrel an cheSn't
sorrel. They's cream-colored hosses, an
claybank, and dun-dun hosses is a
mighty perty color fer a hoss-a car
riage hoss. A dun hoss with a white
name an tail, eff he's we'll built, they
amt no more stylish hosses raised fer
carriages.
Il trailed a team O. dun hcsses over
600 miles once-me an the sheriff John
Dunning-team O. duns with white
names an tails, an team O. brown
hosses The duns was stole I'm Lawyer
Hutchins - Charlie Hutchins - finest
lookin' team, sir, at l ever laid eyes on.
Charlie Hutchins he wouldn't a took
$500 for 'em. He says to Dunning, he
says to John Dunning, the sheriff he
was, when the hosses was stole. he says:
I want you to git them hosses. Here's
5000, an eff that aint anuff you use your
own money and I'll pay it back. An
you take Aaron Banbox long with yeh.
You an him t'gether IL be as good a
TO m
'They was dozen out lookin' fer
Charles hosses, an we met this one
an that one sayin at they'd got track
Of 'em, an a wantin' us to foller their
clews 1t jes docs beat all how little
sense some folks has got when it comes
to follerin' hoss thieves. Meet a feller
and say, Seen sech and sech a lookin'
hoss goin sech d'rection?' Lee me see !;
wy yes, 'bleeve did see that color of a
hoss-yes, I'm sure I see one. Yes, he ID
a white spot in his furrid, an his nigh
him foot was white?' Don't jes now
remember bout his furrid, but his him
foot was white-one on 'em. I guess
mebbe twas the nigh one.' Yes that's
the hoss, sure An off they go, a-fol-
lerin' a lead at lands 'em plum no.
whe-ar-up agin a boss at mebbe amt
got none O. the marks O. the one they're
lookin' fer. WY. even John Dunning,
old hoss thief hunter es he was, he
said he never thought O. doin' no other
way. We-all, t. tell the ruth, I heerd
it f'om ole man at made a bizness o.
trackin' hoss stealers. He says, ole man
says, 'Boy"-I was young feller them
days-'Boy, he says, never you tell the
color O. no hoss to nobody An foun'
out he was right.
"W'll sir we got a hundred mile rom
home fore we got track O. them dun
hosses. Come up t. the edge O. the black
swamp, t log cabin, an as'ed the fell
Ter, Seen any hosses goin' by?' What
color hosses?' feller says. What color
was the hosses at you see?' VIII, sir,
they was a team O. brown hosses, nice
hosses, in buggy, an mighty han's'm
team O. dun hosses a-leadin'. Men says
they was a-goin' to Westcons' n-lived
thear, they says. They'll be bout day
ahead O. yeh, but a-takin' things easy
THAT was close on th' Injiany line.
VIII, sir, we tracked them hosses cir
though Injiany an Illynoy an up into
tn edge O. Minnysoty. They wasn't
pose at they was follered more'n a
hundred mile at tn most, so we KEEP
a-gainin' on 'em ev'ry day.
John he changed hosses a dozen times,
n durin' the month er more It took us
on the trip, but KEEP my own an'mI. I
took kear O. my hoss. That hoss, bet
that hoss drinked quart O. whisky ev'y
day. I alters found whisky good thing
fer hoss, rightly used, but never used
but dern little of it m'self-fsr my own
use, that Is. I'd put bout half glassful
in half pail O. water an let my boss
drink it down. Then I'd take a half
a pint O. alcohol an rub his legs with
it ev'ry night. Weall, my expenses was
all paid, y see. an cd ford to push
my hoss an take kear Of i'm.
"'Long up in tn edge O. Minnysoty,
we heard at we was gittin' mighty close
to our game. We darsn't travel of a
night fer fear O. passin' 'em. Waal,
mex morn'n' we got up p'rty ely, an
heard they was in the mex town. Long
bout half way we met feller an asst
him he'd he seen sech an sech teams
O. brown hosees an dun hosses. We
knowed we was on the right track now,
y'see. Yes, he says, they was about
tradin' off the dun team to TIL lan'lord
jes' es he come away.
well, SIR, we got to town bout ten
clock, an went to tn hotel an says
we'd like to put our hosses up fer a
spell-guese' we wouldn't ride no more
tell long in th' afternoon. First thing ]
see when I went in the stable was them
dun hosses in tn stall. John he seen
'em too, an John he says to tn hostler
Mighty nice lookin' team y got there.
Yes, perty fair team says the hoetler.
I says, How long hes the boss owned
them hosses? Th' hostler he smelt a
mice, an says, kind O. indiff'r'nt like,
oh, I d. know-got 'em long las spring
some time-I don't 'xac'ly remember tn
time John Dunning he says to the hos
tier, John says, You go an tell tn lam
lord at we'd like to see i'm
Lan'lord come out, an John says
Lanlord, how long hev you he'd them
dun hosses over yander?' Course tn
hostler he'd tole th' boss what we'd said
an he says, lan'lord says, I don jis
remember-Sam, when was it we traded
fer that team of duns?' Hostler he says
es near es he could riccollec' twas some
time long in Aprl-bout that time
CTwas in September at We was after
'em an come up to 'em.) VIII, s'r, them
two liars they set In, an betwixt 'en
they tole as nice a string O. lice es a m ar