Show HORSES II IIA A RARE ART Sports Who Could Give David Harum Pointers Chicago April 16 1 I have been reading that David Harum story said the ancient ancl nt liveryman when his cronies were comfortably seated in his little A friend told me that story was wag the last word on horse trading but the man who wrote mote rote it understand the spirit of the game galle at all David Harum would have been skinned out of ot othis his teeth If Jt he had blown Into any an west western western western ern town in the palmy days das of ot horse trad ing 25 or 30 years ago I 1 tell you Ou my m friends all the dead game sports are asleep with their fathers Nobody is la willing to take a chance now nowadays nowadays nowadays I If It a man buys bus a cigar he wants a bill of ot sale with it The other day a cheap skate pestered me a whole after noon talking about buying a horse He Ha tried out all the nags in the barn and finally decided that the bay would suit him Wm And nd he actually wanted a written guaranty that tl at the horse was sound A written guaranty No gen n semen I am not Joking That baldhead ed travesty travest on a man actually asked all ked tor lor such a document I regarded it as an in sult and after I 1 had rebuked him they had to pour four buckets of ot water oven ovet him him before he regained consciousness In the good old days horse trading was a game not a commercial transaction If It a man willing to take the chances when he wont went trading he was advised to try some other line of or business Many and many a time I had the harpoon ad administered administered administered ministered to me One day Major Charlie Slaughter Slaught r drove to my barn and Invited me to take a drink with him I have quite a neat package of ot horse flesh here said the major and I have a sort of presentment that he can travel a few lines when the wind Is blowing in the right direction His horse was a 1 handsome roan a reg ular peacock for tor style with his head heat away awa up In the air eo so oUd need aced a step ladder to see if he ho had a star on his fore tore head And the way he hit the road was wasa a sin Talk about gaited called horses That roan handled his legs as though he tad nad taken sparring lessons Now my weak point In the horse business is that when I want a certain nag the worst way 1 I cant conceal the fact tact I Just cant sleep or eat my victuals vict als until that horse is in my barn with a new halter on nim The major was wise to my weakness Its It no use Jake says the major This hoss hoes on my mr swapping l I list st lt Every Een roan hair sn him Just suits me and Id be a chump to let him go goWell goWell Well Vell of course I got the roan toan all allright allright allright right The major was Just bluffing And I gave him the biggest st trade you ou ever heard of Gave Gae him pith a matched team and several bills for tor that gangling roan And when I 1 took the roan to the water trough I for tor a drink I found that he lower his head He had to carry it about 10 feet teet in the air nil all the time owing to t some Injury to his neck He had to eat his flaked rice off oft a shelf and drink from a garden hose and a man needed an aero aeroplane aeroplane aeroplane plane to put a bridle on him nim Did I raise raille a fuss tuss with the major What sort of a skate do you take me ire for tor Next time I saw him I told him that I liked the roan better than any horse horsa I ever saw He always rooting in the ground like a pig says I J and If It you had told me about his patent dirigible neck Id have given you OU 10 more We Ve were sports in those days dars One time the veterinary surgeon BUrgeon told me about a fine tine trotting horse hors in a town some distance away which had been deprived de deprived deprived of its tail by a surgical operation I went and looked at the horse lie He was wasa a perfect beauty and could trot like lik an nn avalanche But he had Just a stump or of n It tail tall ann the owner was ashamed to drive him so I bought the critter for tor a song son I went to a lot of trouble of ot having a tail made for him It was a beautiful flow ing tall tail a credit to tl the hairdressers haIrdresser t It was fixed to slip sUp over th horses stub t tUh tail tall and was wag then fastened to the crupper or oT the harness and slid a man needed good eyes that it the real thing The major had poor eyes and when 1 took him for tor a drive behind that black trotter he simply had to be tied down to the seat h he was so excited lIe He said hed always wanted a horse with a tail taU like that He had my own weakness Ho pretend Indifference when h he wanted a thing the worst way and he wanted that horse so bad that his halt hair was falling out After a great deal of ot de liberation I Issued my ultimatum Ill give you the horse horse harness and d buggy Just as they stand said I for tor or your our sorrel and 50 oJ i Either of r the sorrels was worth a herd of horses like the black Oh Oil OLD there were real sports in those days |