The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
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hilrf 4 month ~ two n thla 2sb MAIDS 40
bic mind that he ought % have 4 hores fcf
his ssife enough own lie finally got HE
Uncle Ground 70 he wal N hlndna Snd
animal which s,rbch Heb's fancy ~ being
capabls N great things. To the care NJ .hls
horpa ha now gave hia exclusive attention,
Careful and abundant feeding and constant
curry cotnbinR soon brought about such
q tt"nsiorpa,ion y ihe m SppeaiL d
not have heeitAted 60 admit him 10 terms
Of social equality.
Az this time n farmer, who lived a couple
81 miles from Dab's place. cav the horpe
and knowing nothing ~ his history offered
what said Deb. 'ouit yorc foolin',
friend. That horse amt worth q cent
less'n $500. and | don't want to sell him,
anyway"
they spent two weeks dickerinR, and at
last the farmer paid SITS, and thought he
was getting n great bargain at that. The
patched up and pampered skate was put
to the plough at once.
or course he didn't get half the care and
attention that Zeb had given him, and this,
with the hard work, eoon reduced him TO
his normal condition. When the new owner
Jaw what the influences Of environment
and natural selection had brought about he
decided that he had made a mistake and
went to zee u he could induce Zeb to take
the horse back.
"Zebby. he said, Il didn't oughter have
bought that horse away from you-al, fer
a man Of yore means raley do need n horse
to ride to preachin' and SIGH like. and go
Jest come to say you kin have i'm back at
the peroise figger ] done give you,
Well, sir, | don't know but ] kin do thout
at fust = replied Zeb. "No, sir, ] reckon
it's too much trouble fer me to take keer
Of & horse ag'in, specially sech a valable
animal as that air"
As no amount OF argument could change
Zeb's mind, the farmer got angry. accused
Zeb of having cheated him and threatened
to ave the law on him.
Say, amt you one OF them fellers that
was UP to the cote and toll the jedge / was
crazy" asked Zeb.
Eyes, and so you air; crazy as a chinch
sAnd said I oughter have a gardeen to
keep me from bein' cheated? Well, there
wasn't nothin' said 'bout havin' a garden
to keep me from oheatin' anybody, was
there?"
The house still belongs to the same farmer.
a living example Of reversion to type. One
of the 1%fellers that was up to the cote re-
marked only the other day.
yes, sir, 1 shore did labor under a mis-
apprehension bout that Zeb bein' 80 puny
in his intellecks."
The editor OF a weekly paper in a town
In North Carolina received a visit from a
subscriber who lives a few miles out in the
country. Though the o2unty is dry it was
clear that the subscriber had managed to
secure enough corn LIQUOR to make him
feel wealthy, for he ordered that an ad-
vertisement be published stating that he
had so 900 feet OF cordwood for sale.
A few days afterward he came in again
with all the signs of wealth gone-all signs
fail in dry weather-and said he wanted to
insert another notice to the effect that he
was drunk when he advertised 40 much
cordwood for sale, for he didn't have even a
~wagonload. 1t seemed his %neighbors had
been guying hin about it..
The editor gently pointed out 10 him that
this would make known to about 5000 people
a fact which was then confined to the knowl-
edge of a very few.
Gee Whit" cried our friend, Il never
thought of that. Well, JEST say ! done de-
cided to use that wood myself
This editor gives a po%cketknife to all
subscribers who pay in advance. A fellow
came in one day and said
MIR. -, my subscription Is up and l
don't want yore paper no more"
"Why, what's the trouble, Mr.. -"
well, I was away from home a-visitin'
fer a whole week and you never done give
me a compliment bout it,"
The editor, while explaining how inapos-
sible it was for him to hear about all the i'm
portant events in the county, reached for
the box of pocketknives and spread them
out on the desk. The d~isgruntled sub
soriber could not resist his bait and he
brought forth 81 for another years sub
scr1ption.