The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-24

tight grip on the reins, and don't let
him burst away. I'll not keep you long,
for I'll only take a few hundred pounls
out of him the day, just to let these
gentlemen friends of mine see the thing.
Hold hard, now" SEE he, and he drew
the cane sharp slap on the poor
bastes ribs.
Up flung the horse and out jumped a
coin and rolled into the crowd.
The lord mayor crossed his arms, and
aXed some of the crowd to lift it and
tell him what it was.
They lifted and examined it, as if it
was one Of the seven wonders Of the
world, and they bit it and scratched 1T
and jingled it, and sez they:
s a good, bright shilling, with the
kings head on it,
'Humph." SEE the lord mayor, a wee
bit taken aback, lis that all? / expect
ed bit of goold, but the goold's to
come yet. Hold hard again, joint" seq
he, and he come down another sharp
rap on the horses ribs. Up flung the
horse and out jumps another coin.
Kindly tell me-" SEE he, crossing his
arms and looking on indifferently
kindly tell me- SEE he, ''how much is
that?"
The crowd took it up again, and
scratched it and rubbed it and jingled
it and bit it, and seq they:
ITS a half crown, by the toss o
war;
We'll, middling, nIiddling," says he;
were getting toward the goold now.
Hold hard again, joint Look out, gen.
tlemen, for I'm guessing this will be a
half sovereign or "a sovereign, and. it
might get lost And with that he
comes down another rap on the baste's
ribs, but 10 and behold youi though the
horse flung ever so high, the sorra take
the coin or coin came out.
The lord mayor looked around him
and then looked up in the air to see if
the coin went up that way and forgot
to come down, but seeing no sign of it
there he turned to John, and, SEE he:
What way did that coin 60 John ?"
Faith" sez John, seq he, you put
me. a puzzler. Ak me another"
There's some mistake" says the lord
mayor, squaring himself out and fold
ing up his sleeves. I'm afraid that I
didn't strike hard enough that time;
but 1t will not be my fault this time or
1 will" SO down he comes, such a
polthogue, on the poor brute's bones as
made its inside sound like drum, and
up higher than ever the haste flung its
heels, and the lord mayor and John and
all the crowd stood back to watch for
the coin, but good luck to their wit, if
they were watching from that time till
this the dickens receive the coin or coin
would they see.
Right enough" SEE the lord mayor.
SEE he, its as plain as a pike staff that
there must be some mistake here. Don't
you think isn't there some mistake.
John?'
Faith" SEE John, 81 would be very
strongly of the opinion that there is"
John" SEE the lord mayor seq he.
Il think we're not holding his head the
right way. 1t strikes me that the own
er OF him held his head to the north
when he was fiogging the money out of
him. What do you think if we hold his
head to the north?'
Anything at all you phase" SEE
John. I'm paid to obey orders
All right then, John, just move his
head round that way little That's it.
That will do seq the lord MAYOR.
Now hold hard John, and keep a
sharp eye out for the COIN" seq he,
splitting on the stick and winding it
round his head and fetching it down
0, melia murdheri that you'd think it
wouldn't leave a bone in the poor
baste's body it wouldn't knock into a
surabout. And then up flung the horse
and the mayor jumped back, and then
the mayor held out his hand and said:
"Whisht! Whishtr' and set up his ears
to hear where the coin would fall: but
moVrone, ne'er a coin or coin was to be
heard. The first thing the mayor heard
was bit of a litter of laugh. and
then another and another, till the litter
went round all his gentlemen friends. 4
With that he got black in the face. 10
find that he had made such a fool of
himself, and TO the logging of the horse
he falls again, determined to have it
out of him if there was a coin at all in
him. And he fiogged him high up and
low down, and all around, wfacking
and striking, and putting and cursing,
and the haste fiinging and leaping and
ne1ghing and whinnying, till at length
ye most wouldn't see the poor animal
for blood and foam. And his gintlemen
friend round about had to interfare at
friends round about had to interfere ar
last and drag him away from the horse
by brute force and threaten to give
him in charge to the soldiers if he didn'l
stop numbering the creature. and the
horse was dragged off and the lord
mayor was dragged in, and the whole
town laughed the lord mayor clean out
of mis- office. And as for Manis the ras-
cal, he gave up the Bosom making
trade, as well he might, and he lived
an independent private gintleman. him
self and his mother, for the rest of
their days on the interest of his money
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