HOW TO ADVERTISE A HORSE FOR SALE.

Kumara Times, Issue 1551, 16 September 1881, Page 2

HOW TO ADVERTISE A HORSE FOR SALE.

To Owen Curran M'Gbe, Esq. A genius of the county of Cork is credited with the following ingeniouslycompiled advertisement about a horse: “ Saturday, the sixteenth of September, will be set up for sale, at Skibbeieen, a strong, staunch, steady, sound, stout, sinewy, serviceable, smart, strapping, supple, swift, slightly, sprightly, sturdy, spirited, shining, sure-footed, sleek, smooth, spanky, well-skiimed, sized and shaped sorrel steed, of superlative symmetry, styled “ Spanker with small star, and snip, square-sided, slender-shouldered, sharp-sighted, and singularly stately : free from stain, sprain, spasms, spring-fault, stranguary, sciatica, staggers, scowering, strangles, seeling, seilander, surfeit, seams strumous, swellings, sorances, scratches, splint, squint, squirt, scurf, scab, sores, scattering, shuffling, shambling-gait, or symptoms of sickness of any sort. He is neither stiff-mouthed, shabby-coated, sinew-shrung, spnr-galled, saddle-hacked, shell-footed, skiu-giuted, surbated, skinscabbed, short - winded, splay-footed, nor shoulder-slipped, and is sound in the sword-point and stifle-joint. Has neither sick-spleen, sleeping-evil, set fast, snaggle-teeth, sand-cracks] swelled-aheath, subcutaneous sores, nor

shattered hoofs. Nor is he sour, sulky, sturly, stubborn, or .sullen in temp?r. Neither sly dor skittish, slow, slugri-li, nor stupid. He ViVflt her, slips', strips, nor strayS, Stalks, starts, stops, shakes, snivels, shuffles, snorts, stumbles, nofr stocks, in his stall or stable, and scarc>lv; or seldom sweats. Mas a showy, sty lisji, switch-kail dr sferti, arid A safe set of shoes on. Can feed oil 3nibble, sainf°ilj sheaf-oats, straw-hedge, pr Scotch grass. Carnes sixteen stone with surprising speed in his stroke; over a six foot sod or stone wall. His sire was Sly Sobersides, tif a sister of Spindleshanks by Sarapton, a sporting son oS: Sparkler, who won the sweep-stakes and Subscription plate last season at Slingoi rtiS Selling pHce, sixty-seven pounds; sixteen shillings and sixpence sterling; Stereotyped by Samuel S. Smith, Ski Stephen’s Sgiiafe, Strangford .”