Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-04-15 | Page 3 | Both Sold

Both Sold. Southern hospitality is proverbially generous. In .'The Old Dominion" Mr. Thomas Nelson Pago recounts an instance in-stance showing that this hospitality was not always appreciated. A guest asked the loan of a horse to carry him to his next stopping-place, a town which lay at a considerable distance. The host accordingly lent him his horse, and sent along a negro boy it was before the war to bring the horse back. After several days the boy was still missing, and some one was sent to hunt him up. The messenger found him at last, and demanded why ho had not roturned with the horse. " 'Cause dat gent'man done 6ell do horee," was the reply, "Well, why didn't you come back and say so?" "Hi! He done sell me, too," said the boy. Youth's Companion.