The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
TWO HORSEMEN MEET.
The Outcome Of a Discussion as to the Ase OF
a Maine Stecd.
From the Lewiston EreninD journal

From the LeT,ston ErentnD journal
Names David Harum came into the village
the other day. lie was looking for a trade lie
sat in his muddy old wagon viii, his back oeh'
and hi, elbows on his knees. The horse lha'
he drove had hip-bonos that looked like broken
springs in a hair-cloth sofa. The food house.
wife could have done her weeks washing on the
corrugations on his sides. His eyes had the
blas6 look Of one whe has gone through every
thing that can by any possibility be coming
that way, and so has nothing more to lear. Inc
old man was driving with a knotted rope ueu 'c
the end of a stick,
"Cck, click, Gid-dap. Ebenezer, he KEPT
saving and Ebanezer may have heard him and
he may have fell, the slap of the knotted rope
but if he did. there was no symptom to indicate
il. either in the cant of his ears or the acceiera-
ton of his gait.
The old man suddenly pulled up. NO, he
DIDN'T pull ny. He said Whoa" The old horse
AWAY, carries one ear bac X TO hear a whoa. lie
stopped so suddenly that the old man was pre-
cipitated forward. But he caught the dasher
with both hands and was able to save him.
self from falling onto his nose on the road.
A. he hung there, he said to the man standing
on the sidewalk.
Most willing hoss ! ever had. Isaac. A
woman can cr,ve him anywhere, Case there's
| any trouble witt the riggin' any time.all any one
ma. got to do TO say, w hoa, and there ye are
NO danger of bein' all smashed up with him
What We got in the boss kind now, %Isaac?"
Wal, I've got two; there's that gray hoss
that Bill Anderson used 70 own that got in the
way OF a trade, Then I've got a black mare,
but don't believe the wimmsn folks Will want
TO part with the black one, for they've made kind
of u pet out OF II.
tied himself on the seat with his legs crossed
said he:
Il don't spose we're specially backward abou,
changing the gray one. so bet ye git The right
Wal, l,s'pose j might listen a while il any
one talked trade
Seems :, e lhis hos here might mate M
Tn afraid he's a BIT ant, Hiram; iou.
Vas. vas, J know that. but ye,d find that
the boss here would take on flesh like time
when he got started. We see lc'sso darn high
life and ! drive him so much that keep him a
dingin' most OF the time. For What YOU d want
10 drive and the wimmen folks stubbin him
round, he'dbe rounder'n a barrel in few weeks.
I don't know what I'm Selin him for, myself,
but after | have a hoss about so long don't
I sort Of git nddlin' round to git rid Of him and
make n change. It's lucky for "A man when he
don't nave that dissatisfied way and can hang
on to a good thing when he gifts Il. | only
knew enough to do ii, ] would not let this boss
Of mine 90 for love nor money,
While he was talking Isaac had come along
and had rolled up the old horses, upper lip
After n careful scrutiny of his teeth. Isaac shook
his head and said
How old do You call this boss. Hiram?"
".Ies' 'zactly Oyears old les 'zackly o."
"Sho, now git out. he's older n that"
mo sir. les '2acklyo
Il don't saw We are lyin' about the thing,
Hiram, but ! do reckon ye are mistaken. The
boss Is older'n0 ..
Now ! understand boss age clear into the
ground, " said the old man. Il know that boss
Of mine is ies' 'zac,ly . wears old. Vas. sir.
les 'zacklv o - not over 10. 'leven al the outside
and u to the Extent. by Judas"