| Show needed the trappings to lure other sucker the late chief justice william howard tatt taft told with many character characteristic ls tic chuckles this story to which an obvious political moral can be attached says colliers Col llera magazine an old quaker who wore the characteristic act old time quaker costume wide brimmed flat hat and shad bellied coat sold a horse to an ordinary citizen chizen after the horse had traveled a few miles and the dope had died out it proved to have spavin ring bone heaves incipient blindness and other horse maladies in great anger and with much difficulty the stung purchaser dragged the decrepit wreck back to the man from whom it had been obtained at a fair price on the irate buyer and the tottering horse approach the quaker flapped his hand forbiddingly and cried out thee bought him of thine own volition I 1 thee bought him with thine eyes open P yes but 1 I repeat thee bought him willingly I 1 did not force him on thee I 1 can do nothing for oh shut apt up I 1 said the victim 1 I dont ask you to take the animal back I 1 just wanted to borrow your coat and hat so I 1 could sell him to some other sucker |
