Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-11
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HORSE TRADE.

Springfield Republicans: "Dave Har-
um" says: THE golden rule in horse
tradin is tn do unto others as others
would do unto YOU. and do it ~first:'' but
there is sometimes a later reckoning.
Away back in the fort.es Mr.. Crosby of
the Elm Vale farm in North Andover had
an extensive establishment there, with a
large number of fine horses. and in the old
days Ben Thurston, the father of the IA
nous Black Hawk breed, who lived at
Lowell, used to come down an. try speed
with Mr.. Crosby, who at that time owned
Lady Essex and Lady Lawrence, both
fast horses. In the winter the track was
transferred to the ice on Merr.mas river,
and many is the race they had down as
far as Haverhill and return. One of the
side speculations with Mr.. Crosby was a
large grocery store, which he had estab-
llshed on the Essex company's land south
of what is now Lawrence. Mr.. Crosby
was quite a horse fancier n enjoyed a
trade. Mr.. Bean, a prominent liveryman
of North Andover, also did something in
the same line. Mr.. Crosby and Mr.. Bean
had a horse trade one day in which Bean
got terribly worsted, but he kept his
peace, and for three years regularly drove
up to Mr.. Crosby's store and purchased
his groceries, never once mentioning the
horse trade, until Crosby imagined that
possibly he had traded off the horse with
out hiding out his imperfections. and so
1t was apparently forgotten on both sides.
One day Mr.. Bean drove up with his
wife IN a light wagon to Crosby's store for
his weekly groceries. AS he drove up to
the store Crosby was sitting out on the
platform in front of the store. Bean
passed into the store and gave his order
for groceries. Crosby sat looking at
Beams horse, and said: Bean. that
horse of yours will match one that l have
doWn on the farm; I'd like to buy him.
Bean said: mo: that's a horse l bought
two or three years ago for my wife, and
don't propose to sell him. When 1 find
anything that suits my wife I stop right
there"
crosby walked around the horse, and
the more he looked at him the more he
bought what an admirable match it
would be for his horse down at the farm,
so he kept bantering Bean for a trade,
NO. said Bean, 'all I want is a heavy
horse for a big team that I've got. If
could find just he right horse for that
might be induced to swap WELL" said
Crosby, i've got just the thing. the big
gray stallion that lilly drives in nv store
team IS Just the thing you want" Bean
allowed that that was about what he
wanted, but he didn't know that his wife
would be willing to nave him trade the
morse. His wife continued sitting in the
wagon during the time, so that there was
no opportunity for Crosby to exercise the
horse.
Finally Crosby stumped Bean to name
a price for his horse, and so Bean toid
ms wife II she would consent to let him
trade the horse he would give her a fine
sorrel one he had, and after a time she
reluctantly consented. "Well," said Rear
to Crosby, eff wife's willin' I'll swan fe,
800 Crosby offered 1925. mo" sale
Bean. Il ont care about tradin', any.
way b I'd trade for $50. 1 can get m,
wife another horse jest as good, and thu
big horse will suit me on my team
Nothing had been said about the sound
ness or either horse. Finally, after more
chatting, Crosby offered to split the diff.
ference. making it $3.50, and Bean &C.
copied the offer, and the writer set t(
work to change the horses.
AS the big gray horse was hitched int