A SHARP SALE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1051, 6 January 1883, Page 3

A SHARP SALE.

There are often amusing stories on the subject of horse bargaining told in the railway carriages filled with dealers returning from a fair. The following is the latest that lias come in my way. Although it may be old I don’t think it has ever been in print. A Yorkshire liorse-breecling yeoman farmer had for several years a thoroughbred stallion, a remarkably handsome animal, which had acquired a high reputation for getting hunters and blood carriage horses. After a time it became, for reasons not necessary to explain, perfectly useless as a sire, but still exhibited good form both trbtting and standing still. A horsey friend coming down on a visit to shoot, asked to see the Emilius horse. The stallion made a good appearance ridden in the home, field by a groom, and magnificent when run with a long rein. ‘ Will you sell him Y said the Londoner.

‘ 1 will,' said the Yorkshiroman. ‘l’ll give you five hundred,’ responded the Londoner. ‘ tit’s yours,’ answered the Yorkshireninn, ‘ Shillings 1 meant, cried the Londoner. ‘So did I,' answered the owner. ‘That’s a bargain 1 cried the amused friends of the Londoner, who stood round. So they all went indoois and liquored up. What became of the stallion 1 could not learn. —Correspondent Live Stock Journal.