The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06

the more anxious to possess the ami
mai He looked in it's mouth, felt of its
ribs, trotteN it around the lot and ex-
hausted expert tests to ascertain the
worth of the equine.
Point blank he offered s125 for the
horse. Mr.. McGrory pooil-poohed the
idea. Nothing short of $3.50 would meet
MS views. If the horse was not worth
this sum, why, he said, there was left
the great American privilege of escort
ing him by the halter back to his stall
ana awaiting another purchaser.
AS the story goes the rounds. Mr..
Hogg was determined to own the horse.
He haggled and haggled over the price.
and finally offered to split the difference
ana write check for S137 for the nag.
put McGrory with fine show Of scorn.
refused to entertain the offer. Unless
thefe was forthcoming. S137.50 he said
tnat ne would have to ask Mr.. Hogg not
TO be taking up his valuable time He
had a carriage to wash.
NOW William j. Hogg is not a n1an
TO De thwarted once he sets out to ac-
comphsh purpose. The ownership of
TINS nag struck him as bounden duty
70 De performed, and he registered a
VOW they say, to sit in a gigs behind
TINS particular stopper. McGrory is
credited with being a reader of human
nature, and a man that knows how
70 scent the contamination Of a bar
gam. He said that Mr. Hogg would
nave to pay the price he set-$1S7. so
or seek for u horse elsewhere.
he was so positive in this that Mr.
Hogg thought he was in dead earnest
ana II struck him that in the event of
his failing to close the deal there
would be no further opportunity for
MIN to secure such horse as he was
looking for. He looked McGrory
straight in the eye, McGrory returned
the gaze just as fearlessly as Robert
Enmet faced Lord Norberry. The
tWlnkIe OF the star was missing; he
gazeo as steadfast as a planet. Mr..
Hogg saw honesty expressed there and
ne was convinced. He went into tbe
stable office and wrote a check for
$lSf5O. His coachman drove the horse
away 1t loved McGrory, and it neighed
sladly because he had struck a bar
gain.
Were this play, it would be an
propriate at this point to mention that
the curtain went down. Two week I
passed by and then came occasions for
the undeceiving of Mr.. Hogg. He found
that the horse was not the sort of an
equine that he yearned for. Blood
came to his eye and clouds began TO
gamer IN the McGrory zenith.
Inc Hogg coachman was given Shout
yer straps ana commissioned to drive
the horse back to McGrory's win a
peremptory order that the money
should be refunded.
The horse was still true to McGror,,
ana while afar off, he neighed a warn.
ing that trouble was coming down tha
PIKE in his direction. When the coach
man appeared in front Of the barn he
round the door closed and McC,ro,,,,
stahdlng, strongly fortified. with ~.
mead out of window in the havloft
he defied the Hogg lightning ike an.
other Ajax 'ifAe ar ar
Mr.. McGrory told The Spy reporter
last night, that the coachman offarei
70 make everything all right for n car
Tan! tam sum- but as Kipling would saw
t that y another story Whatever IL was
snat passed between them, McGrory
refused to take back the horse ana ~
coachman was forced to drive hin, Nh,
to the Hogg stables. o''0N
Iaik about Mrs. Partington pett,ny
ner PACK up when the Atlantic ooas,,
nooded her front piazza! Mr.. Hopp ~
ms dander up and he consulted NJ,
Mellieh, OF Goulding & Mellish AZ
consequence, suit was brought S,d
WITHIN a short time the case win be
sTleu IN the central district court
y woou q; wood are lawyers for Mr.. Me-
GIory he regards II as g. great iolra
az around. and says that he does MOI
~ TnnsIe nr. Hogg has a leg to stand
on. Horses vary in value, and \ man
an animal. o"n piice on
r. 5nf that's the fork in the road where
Mr. Hogg leaves him. "4iei