The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-29
THE PiKERs' LAMENT.

When dad spanked me never cried,
/ held my breath in tight and tried
To make him think it didn't hurt.
But practice made him quite expert.
When dad spanked me.
When dad spanked me and looked so mad,
1 came cut used up pretty bad:
In mothers arms-you know the rest.
I couldn't help but like her best,
When dad spanked me.
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ON WEST DOUGLAS AVENUE.
Yes. they have fast horses nowadays"
said the captain, as he carefully raised
his game leg to convenient chair and
took chew OF tobacco. But that amt
the point in the horse business. / Used
to know fellow back in Missouri in 80
by the name Of Holly. Come from Ken
lucky. was long and lean as them fel-
lows are generally supposed to be-
never saw a homelier looking animal in
my life. A big. raw boned devil. the
color of a dirty dish-rag. and dead
ringer for Holly when il come to height
and skinnyness. Holly had him at the
Newark fair one day a-showin him with
the rest OF the horses, and everybody
laughed the minute they seen him come
into the ring. Holly had one of these
here big high-wheeled sulkeys and was
drivin' around when Jake the horse, got
ed Holly out, and started around that
speed ring. All the other horses got into
the center Of the ring and let Jake have
the floor. He ran around the track TIL
there was nothing left of that high
wheeled sulky. and then he paced around
twice faster than he had run.
Every man who could git TO Holly
offered to buy Jake at good price, nut
he had come to be worth $1,000 by that
~T ne
the price. Well you know it was ar fair
time, and everybody got TO know about
what a wonderful horse that Jake Holly
was Holly had another suiky made and
started over the country. He bred jake
all over that county that summer and
all over the next county the summer after
that But [ never saw such colts. They
were all the same color that Jake Holly
was, and nearly every one had a Whlte
nose. with reddish brown spots on il and
their bodies Every farmer who had one
of them colts was mad every time he
looked AZ it, and all Of EN- said # they
ever saw Holly they'd Go things TO him
that don't sound well in print
After them colts got to be about three
years old. / bought a car load OF EN- and
took en- TO St Louis. Wen. sir, I
couldn't git any man to look at EN-. L
had TO have some of 'em shod again be-
l
didn't cost me much in the first place, but
l lost more money on them than ] ever
did on any other car load since or be
fore About a year after that l was in
St Louis again and met one of the
men who had bought two of them Jake
Holly colts from me. He had been driving
them to a brewery team, and was just
dyin' to git hold of another team. He
said they were certainly the best horses
he had ever owned for his business. l
looked up several other fellows that had
bought them, and found the same thing.
Then l went back home and l bought
every one l could find. Didn't have TO
take them all to St. Louis. The buyers
come out after them. and you bet them
farmers were good and sore when they
seen what a nice thing [ made out OF the
last batch OF Jake Hollys.
well. the next winter Holly himself
come around again. This time he had a
lack All the fellows that had sold them
Jake Holly colts to me was anxious TO
breed their mares to that Jack. They
come to Hollys house in droves. and Holly
made all kinds of money out of il. Fhen
he had a sled built with hood over II
like these delivery wagons have and
hauled that Jack around over the country.
why didn't the jack walk? Couldn't.
His fore-legs We're too knock-kneeed ana
his nind-legs were crossed Ike pair OF
scissors opened But all them farmers
in that part of the country were figurin'
that they would be even on Holly
mule.
"HolIy had more money than any man
in that country had ever made in any
business. and left in the spring for Ken
lucky, where he bought one of the finest
blue grass farms in the state and started
into the blooded horse business right.
Them mules? Wen. sir, every one OF
em had the same kind of legs that Hol-
Tvs lack had. Never would have walked
a step. Had TO be killed.
mo. this horse business amt what it
used TO be, when it comes to maxim
money" And the captain had the far
away look In his eyes that comes into our
own as we think of other days.