A HORSE TRADE IN COLORADO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 217, 21 July 1879, Page 2

A HORSE TRADE IN COLORADO.

0 An honest miner sat in a contemplative , mood before the door of a saloon in one of the crowded thoroughfares of Denver. He had taken '•'• sugar in his," several times, i and now cast a wilful look at intervals towards unprospecled regions in the foothills, where he hoped to strike a tellarium lead, now that" them placer diggin's was played out." Slowly down the street came a solitary horseman, ill-mounted, poorly-clad, and meagrely equipped, and stopped in front of the sitter. " Stranger," said he, "I want to sell yer ahorse." " Stranger," was the reply, "I don't want him," "' Stranger," rejoined the wayfarer, " yer really must buy him ; you never see a better horse at the price," "What is the price, stranger!" asked the contemplative man, " A hundred and fifty dollars, and dirt cheap at that.' 1 ■ The inquirer, meditated for a few moments, then blandly remarked—- " Stranger I'll give yer five." The equestrian dismounted, saying with earnestness, " Stranger, I won't allow a hundred and forty-five dollars to stand between you and me and a trade, The horse is yours!" No.—" Can storied urn or animated bust," exceed in eloquence the words" No Trust?" Con.—ln what two cases are precisely the same means used for directly opposite purposes 1 Why, in the case of bars of bank and gaol windows, to be sure, They are put on the former to keep thieves out, and on the latter to keep them in. And So Say All Young Ladies!—A young lady was refused leave to go to a ball. She pleaded that her mother went when she was young. " But now I see the folly of it," said the elder lady. " I want to see the folly of it too, mamma," said the younger.