The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-18

slight Mistake on = Track That
Prevented Carrying Ont q Deal.

1 never could miss = horse DEAL aid
] one of the former proprictors OF the Gut
/ tenburg horse track. with chuckle OF
satisfaction. shut my last venture was n
Jim Dandy. Over IN New Jersey u few
weeks ago I was driving along the pike
about Ave miles from my country homa
+ when old farmer I knew pokei his
whiskers over his fence and asked II I.
didn't want 20 buy an ancient plug which
/ ne held ny a halter 10 keep from falling
down. I stopped. of course. and examined
/ 'he steeG. There was about S worth oe
meat on him, 81 worth of vitality ana two
. cents worth OF speed. didn't exactly see
What | could 10 with such a monumental
+ wreck. h''t the horse-traaing passion grew
strong wit6tn me ana said:
I How much for the equine gold nrick?s
Thirty dollars returned the farmer,
For how many l asked politely.
! This Is selected stock. Comes one in
i box WAS his retort.
! TN Sivs you tcn,' said I. and no CUES.
j items asked
! ii twenty ana this Seautiful Hamoletoniau
/ is your'n.
Well. l liked tae farmer and l Ekeo
+ his sporty talk and / had spent some
/ previous time In dalhance at the road
! house money had ceased To look "a lovely
usual, So / gave him the twenty and
/ led the four-icgged graveyard home.
noticed that he began To pick up u little
form. This also attracted the attention Ok
coal-hiack gentleman whom l employ
I on my place as valet 10 the COWS and lesser
stock. One hrisht. dewy morning he
shufTlei up and said:
- Boss, what yo' taak TO de new hoss!s
"'Does some benevolent association want
( to buy him. I asked. The black gantle-
man grinned until his teeth looked like
/ a monument; builders exhibit at world'a
/ fair.
"'No. san said be Abs lookin' fos
| hoss flesh 70 mself.
/" But this is a very valuable animal
Joseph. said refiectively. and his pos
! shilities In speed are unlimited. The only
thing that worries me Is his Representatives,
| l should think slop--
"'Ah'n give yo' fifty. boss broke In
! Joseph. 'Cawn't spare no more'n dat
"a kind heart and Il generous. noble
nature have always been against me In
matters of commerce. 50 1 sold the. ma.
Ia the black gentleman for his half GEN.
fury and dismissed the transaction from
my mind as unworthy OF regret. But q
few days after he came around 10 discuss
his purchase. -.
Boss said he Abs pow'fui sorry foS
yc''
Whats tho matter with me?' asked
Am sick AGAIN. -e,s
'Yo' done Will be wen yo' heahs de
! news he answered. Boss. dat fifty -aoIlah
boss yo' done sole me goes In two-thuty-
seVen.'
Don't Joseph said l.. panied beyond
/ expression at this evidence of decadence.
| Remember Ananias and what one puny
! little effort did for him.
Fact, boss: deed hit is he insisted
| Then he called "a rtint OF an African who
I had recently appeared In the neighborhood
| to come and back up his assertion.
| =" Two thuty-geven's his time, sah,' said
! the runt. pulling ont a handsome stop
watch. which he explained in come con-
/ fuAon had been presented IL him by =
lady ftiend for being good Men Joe dona
| had him down TO the track n trotted him
| 'roun in yo' ole sulky Ia DAT time, sub.
| cordin' To de watch
eff that is the case, Joseph said I. Il
| am Wiling to buy the animal back at Z
| comfortable advance. Looking at the
! horse now in charitable light, perceive
! that his days numbered and will soon
be tahulated on a cold. cold stone. You
may touch me for $50 and III take the
/ animal off your hands'
! s'But the low-dowu African grinnad
| bid him UP. boss.' said he. Abs used
| to auctions
"'loseph said I. you grieve me deeply.
| Would you for the mere greed OF filthy gold
restrain the hand of beuepolence? III
| give you se5.'
u X,
t boss said the perverse one. Once mos
IF yc' please
Seventy dollars. then, II you're goods
"'Dat's A. II. g. boss Sling some good
! ode diction'ry langwidge Wild free fgahs In
| HIT
well before got through with Joseph
ne ran me np TO sl25 Then started over
10 the track with him. his runt friend with
the stop watch. and the bony old glue-pot
filler OF horse 10 witness n porformanc0k
before paying my cash The track
question is an abandoned bicycle coeAs.s
which overhauled last spring IA affnr.n,'
ing place for my own horses and TIE borss:
OF my friends When we a.frfr-4 the two
black gentlemen hustled thte nag into
old sclky. Joseph mounted. and the f,,neras
procession moved up the cotkrse The -
pulled his stop watch and consulted ,n,rss
Joseph piled his whip and let his rero.s
breaker ont for all he was worth. yvh,cA
appeared 10 he about as much as n vo..
httched 10 n canal boat.
by and by as the sun went down 49,
the moon came up. Joseph and his hors.
came under the wire.
whats de timer no asked his saa,-
friend expectantly 4 smile OF triumnn
sni{t the runt's face In half.
p" He done nit In two-thuty-asx nm. -
half he answered. and ! laid my wears
head between my hands and laughed I'm
II hurt me.
'Wha' 20 yo' laugh, boss?' asker
Joseph. coming up ~ receive the erpecfs0
1925. Am yo' glad & Kit him so cheapw
'' Joseph / said. when caught nh
breath. I'm not deprive you OF your thor
0ughbred unless You insist. ana In thai
event I must alter my figures. Instead oe
sl2s. have not the heart to offer you mr.
than si.25'
" 'Fo' De Tawd's sake. hoss' What
mattan wid yo2 gasped Joseph, port
with astonisnmeut. Didn't he go %
de- track IN two-thUty-six an or hal
- lie dId for Il fact, Joseph: he did
I.
." Den what's wrong he demands
=" Nothing. Joseph absolutely nov
I answered only this happens tn
half-Intie track"
"Ana both black Reutlsrnen fell do
the dust Nov York sun.
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