The sun., 1910-06-26
A TAR HEEL HORSE TRADER
THO SALES PATTERSON MADE
TO 4 RITtL DEALER.

Treatment Tsr a lltg Black with the run
away Habit Consequences Of =
brush On the Road-A IiOFse with 4
FoSt LIke = DInner Piate. and speed.
'YoU never want TO judge Of a mans
shrewdness by the sire of the town you
find him living in. said the veteran horss-
man one evening recently in tho cafe
Of an uptown hotel when horse trading
and horse iockcying tricks were heins
discussed I was sent 20 North Caro-
lima On an important mission for the
Government shortly after tho war. and
in a little town down there ! found one
u the smartest horsemen Il has ever
been my lot 70 encounter
Tell you about him? Well his name
was Patterson Charlie Patterson and
while he was horn in Maine. which prob
ably accounted for much of his natural
shrewdness. he had through years Of
residence among the Tar Reels picked
up any tricks Of the trade which might
have escaped him in the North
He had a large livery business and
did a thriving trade He didn't confne
himself strictly 20 the letting of horses
and rigs. but bought and sold horses
and came a. far north as New YORK. occa
sionally 10 replsnish his stock at the
big auction aales. He had natural
eye for a horse and wasn't fooled often.
though the smartest of them once In a
while get landed with a dead one
-It was on one Of these New York trips
that Patterson bought a ilne looking
black horse for so He smelled a TaJ
when horse of the style and looks e.
the animal that fell 70 his bid was
Knocked down 20 him at 10 low a figure
A. he said 70 me later on;
~ stJick my oar in only once. and they
, dropped him on me like a thousand of
bricks had bought a team Of hackers.
wagon and some harness also. and
when the auction vas over I wanted to
hook up my black horse night quick and
see where tho hole was. for l was certain
there was something wrong.
Ny wagon. which was worth upward
Of two hundred, was brought out and I
was harnessing the black horse when the
head stableman came along and sug-
gested that I was laying up trouble for
myself. The horse was a notorious run.
away. he said. and would 90 over a stone
wall or most any Othsr old place once he
got started.
II finally got him 10 rent me an old
Z wagon he had. II was a stout rig on low
wheels and I guaranteed 60 pay for Il
! II came 10 grief Ny friend Capt.
/ Ioyoe. who used 10 train some OF the
best trotters and PAGERS In the country
happened 10 he along with me. and he ,ok
the reins when We we're ready 10 start
had a iesk line on the horse and
gave that my exclusive attention Moth
ing happened on our way - Central PAX.
and Just after we turned in AZ Fiftv.
ninth street We were congratulatinE our.
selves when a lady In passing victoria
raised her parasol. Away W. went al
breakneck speed
Joyce tried 10 keen him straight. but
the brute bolted. and Il was only bv ths
application Of the jerk line that brought
him up within a dozen feet of n stone
wall. I jumped % the ground and iersed
the line - light that he was glad 90 come
back to the roadway.
-Wo hadn't gone hundred yardi
further when he started again. but
was on the Job and promptly shut M,
wind on. Half a dozen doses did the trich
and We logged down % the barn again
quite satisfied with the days work
We'll. Patterson told me how he kept
b the black horse going every day till h
shipped him South, and when he got home
he picked out the qIietest hOrse ne haC
in the harm and hooked him double II
wasn't a month before everybody in towr
would turn IN the streets and look aftei
that black horse
1t was about this time that Abe Ihomp.
son Of Baltimore came 10 town Abe wa,
considered a. smart ~ a steel tran IL
deserved the reputation he on loved too fol
you had % get up pretty early IN tn
morning 20 CT the drop on him. He mad
periodical trirs through the Carolina,
and Georgia buying mules and horses
and the morning after his HFrival he va,
standing in front II his hotel chewing 1
quill toOthpick when Patterson drove hy
with tho new horse
Hello, there! he called. I've cot 4
black horse IN Baltimore the living irnaQs
oi him, and thew ought % he together
Tell Won what IN do. III give you SIS q
say how much you'll give or take
Patterson told mo afterward that the
novel proposition. which he heard for TN
first time staggered him for a mo.
ment. but he hnally OonGluded that 4
Thompson was looking % unload some.
thing on him he would try n heat hin, q
Il, 40 he answered that hs would give hiFr
(ThOmpa0nD S7S 20 say how much hs world
give or take. Thompson shifted hi
tOOthpick three OF four times before M
Haid that be would give or take t16.
I'll take. aaid Patterson. and h. tod
me that he felt pretty good ~ unloading
such a'WOrthleas proposition for such 1
fair priOo. Patterson was tsmpted % tel
Thompson b be careful how he hooked
him up. but the Baltimorean had nevel
shown any dispoaitiOn b show any apecia
regard for the feelings af thoas upOF
whom he landed some OF hiS doubtful
barEAlns and hs said nothing.
-Pattofu1n was standing M frunt o.
his barn q ieu afternoons later When a
Iriahman who kept a stable IN anothol
part of tho town happened along.
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