Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-04-19

Mohawk was beaten. To continue this
trotting contest was humilating; |
Welded, therefore, before the victory was
palpable, and pulled up.
eyes" continued he, "a horse of
pretty considerable good action, and a
pretty fair trotter, too, guess"
Pride must have fall; | confess mine
was PROSTATE in the dust. These words
cut me to the heart. What is it come to
this, poor Mohawk, that you, the admira-
ton of all but the envlous, the great
Mohawk, the standard by which all
other horses are measured. trots next to
Mohawk, only yields to Mohawk, looks
like Mohawk-that you are, after all,
only counterfeit, and pronounced by a
struggling Yankee to be merelya pretty
fair trotteT?
"If he was trained, | guess that he
might be made do little more. Excuse
me; but If you divide your weight be-
tween the knee and the stirrup-rather
most on the knee-and rise forward on
the saddle, so as to leave a little daylight
between you and it, hope l may never
ride this circuit again if you don't get a
mile more Ill nOuT out Oh MN.
"What! Not enough" | mentally
groaned, "to have my horse beaten, but
! must be told that | don't know how to
ride him, and that, too, by Yankee?
Ay, there's the rub! A Yankee what :?
Perhaps half-bred puppy, half Yankee,
half Bluenose. AS there is no escape,
III try to make out my riding master"
mir I
pressing all the surprise they were capa-
bic of-"your circuit? Pray what may
that be-"
"Oh," said he, "the eastern circuit; |
am on the eastern circuit, sir"
81 have heard" said |, feeling that
now had a lawyer to deal with, THAT
there is a great deal of business on this
circuit. Pray, are there many cases of
Importance
"There is pretty fair business to be
done-at least, there has been-but the
cases are of no great value; we do not
make much out of them. We get them
up very easy, but they don't bring much
profit
"What BEAST" thought |, sis this !.
and what a curse TO country to haye
such an unfeeling, pettifogging rascal
practicine in it. A horse jockey, too !
What finished character I'll try him
on that branch of his business
"That is a superior animal you are
mounted on" said al seldom meet one
that can travel with mine"
EYES," said he, coolly, "a considerable
fair traveller, and most particular good
bottom"
| hesitated; this man who talks with
such unblushing tffrontery of getting up
cases and making profit out of them can
not be offended at the question. Yes, |
will put 1t to him:
"Do you feel an inclination to part
with him."
81 never part with a horse, sir, that
suits me-" said he; II am fond of a
horse. | don't like to ride in the dust
after every one | meet, and | allow no
man to pass me but when choose"
us it possible" | thought, ''that he
can know me-that he has heard of my
foble and is quizzing me-or have | this
feeling IN common with him?'
But" continued |, You might supply
yourself again.
mot on this circuit, guess" said he,
"nor yet in Campbell's circuit"
"'Campbel's circuit Pray, sir, what
is that"
THAT" said he, sis the western; and
Hampton rides the shore circuit. And,
as for the people on the shore, they know
so little of horses that Hampton tells me
a man from Aylesford once sold horn
less OK there whose tail he had cut and
nicked for horse of the Goliath breed"
81 should think" said |, THAT Mr..
hampton must have no lack of cases
among such enlightened clients"
"'Clients,' SIR said my friend. "Mr.
hampton is rot a lawyer
81 beg pardon: thought you said he
rode the crcuit?'
"We call it circuit said the stranger,
who seemed by no means battered. "We
divide the province, as in the almanac,
into circuits, in each of which we sepa-
rately carry on our business of manufac-
turing and selling clocks. There are
few, | guess" said the clockmaker,
"who 90 upon tick as much as we do who
have so little use for lawyers; if attor-
neys could wind man up again after he
has been fairly run down. | guess they'd
be pretty harmless sort of folks"
This explanation restored my good
humor, and, as could not quit my COM
panion and he did not feel disposed to
leave me, made up my mind TO travel
with him to Fort Lawrence. the limit of
his circuit.-From "Sam Slick the Clock
maker" by Judge Thomas Chandler Hal
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War.
THE GREATEST OF EVILS.