HOW TO ADVERTISE A HOUSE FOR SALE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 172, 21 July 1881, Page 3

HOW TO ADVE RTISE A HOUSE FOR SALE.

A genius of the County of Cork is credited with the following ingeniously compiled advertisement about a horse : Saturday, the 16th September, will be see up for sale, at Skibereen, a strong, staunch, steady, sound, stout, sinewy, serviceable, smart, strapping, supple, swift, sightly, sprightly, spirited, sturdy, shining, sure-footed, sleek, smooth, spanky, well-skinned, sized, aud shaped, sorrel steed, of superlative symmetry, styled^ "Spanker," with small star and snip; square-sided, slender-shoul-dered, sharp sighted and singularly stately ; free from stain, sprain, spavin, spasms, springhalt, stranguary, sciatica, staggers, scouring, strangles, seeling, seelander, surfeit, seams, strumous, swellings, eorrances, scratches, splint, equint, scurf, scabs, scars, sores, scatterring, shuffling, shambling-gait, or symptoms of sickness of any sort. He is neither stiff-mouthed, shabby-coated, sinew-sprung, spur-galled, saddle-back-ed, shell-footed, surbated, skin-scabbed, short winded, splay-footed, nor shoulder slipped, aud is sound in the sword-point and stifle-joint. Has neither sick-spleen, sleeping-evil, set fast, snaggle-teeth, Eand-cracks f subcutaneous sores, nor shattered hoofs. Nor is he sour, sulky, surly, stubborn, or sullen in temper'. Neither sly nor skittish, slow, sluggish, nor stupid,. He neither slips, strips, or^ strays, stalks, starts, stops, shakes, snivels, snuffles, snorts, stumbles, or stocks in his stall or stable, and scarcely or seldoin sweats. Has a showy, stylish, switch-tail, or stern, and a safe set of shoes on. Can feed on stubble, sainfoin, sheaf-oats, straw-hedge, or scotch grass. Carries sixteen stone with surprising speed in his stroke, over a sixfoot sod, or stone wall. His sire was the Sly Sobersibes, out of a sister of Spindleshanks by Scamp a sporting son of Sparkler, who won the sweepstakes and subscription^ plate last season at Sligo. His selling price, sixty -seven pouuds, sixteen shillings and six-pence sterling." — Stereotyped by Samuel S. Smith, St. Stephen's Square, Strangford,"