"THEN OPTIONS."

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1624, 30 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

" THEN OPTIONS."

Comiug down on a Michigan avenue car on Saturday morning were two drivers, one of them an umnistakeablo Yankee; not the Yankee of the footlights, but one from " daown Bast among the maountings oE Ver-mont" They were conversing about the live stock market, and the nasal inflection of the' Vermonter quickly caught the ear of the other -passengers, and all at once became interested listeners. " Haow's cattle ?" inquired Fcr-mont. "Bight good," replied the Westerner. " How's sheep ?" " There's money in sheep naow, and allus is. I came aout here abaout nine years ago withaout a, dollar, for dad was poor, naow, I tell ye. I went to driven' sheep fur old Sniggins at a dollar a day an' my baoard. Bimeby, arter I got a" leetle 'quainted withfolks, and had laid up a leetle money, I began to buy on my own hook, payin.' the farmers a part on it daown and gettin' trusted for the balance until next trip. Naow I've got that farm of mine up to Hunkersville, worth five thousand dollars if its worth a cent, and that hotel property over on the plank, worth nine thousand dollars quick, and I don't owe a cent on neither one nor 'tother on 'em. Yes, sir, I'm worth to-day fourteen thousand dollars, and I made every dollar of it often sheep. If I'd a knowed as much as Ido naow, I'd a gone into hosses, and I'd a been rich naow. There's a lot er money in hosses, all the time. Jim Brown bought two out in Oakland County last week for a hundred an' ten dollars apiece, brought/em to Detroit and sold the pair for, three hundred as quick as you could turn your hand over. Jim's gittin' rich. Wonder haow oorn is ? " " Corn's way down. Tumbled six cents in Chicago in two days;" •• WHAT 1! " "Fact!" " I did. Made ten dollars qmcker'n 1 yeou could skin a cat. Next day I thought I'd try itagin,*so"l went,in and laid deown ten on er thousand bushels er wheat. The feller had. no more'n put the money in,the drawer" than , • clicMt-a-click' went ther niersheen. ' Yeou're froze out,' sea the feller. <,Teou don't( say so, sez I:, ' I'll go yer agin,' sez I, an.l walked, out, an', went up to the tavern an'( took <a big drinlibf rum'androerlasses, 1 £h' wseVl to myself, ' -wheat's too tarnul lively; fer'yeOU.j, J,eflt yeou stick;t'o sheepman' yeou'reall^nght,', an'^ :& tiaint -boughtv, no .options'(sence^i VDum >i