. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. acarriage and saddle horse He is also one of the bestfour-in-hand and tandem whips on the western conti-nent, being a familiar and welcome figure at swellhorse shows. From those exhibitions he has carriedaway with him enough blue ribbon to make a ladysdress, trophies which are now displayed in the den ofhis cozy home. His reputation as a buyer is widespreadand he is kept busy buying and selecting horses for theeastern elite, beside which he has a large western con-tingency of customers. But wi
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. acarriage and saddle horse He is also one of the bestfour-in-hand and tandem whips on the western conti-nent, being a familiar and welcome figure at swellhorse shows. From those exhibitions he has carriedaway with him enough blue ribbon to make a ladysdress, trophies which are now displayed in the den ofhis cozy home. His reputation as a buyer is widespreadand he is kept busy buying and selecting horses for theeastern elite, beside which he has a large western con-tingency of customers. But with all his success Johnnys heart has remainedas big as a bullocks, and with all his travels he loves,next to a good horse, the land of the shamrock. MARY THE APPLE WOMAN. Everybody knows her; she is fulJy as indispensableas the largest stockholder of the stockyards company,and a good deal more popular than anybody else con-nected with the yards. Her full name is Mrs. MaryValanta, but she has been Mary for short so long thatshe would have to think twice before recognizing her-self as Mrs. MARY THE APPLE WOMAN IN HER STAND. Originally she came from the land of perpetualsunshine, song and macaroni, but that was when shewas a nut-brown ^ bimbo, and now her only relic of hernative soil is a dulcet accent which is only pronouncedenough to suggest that she is a countrywoman of Patti. Nineteen years ago she was thrown upon her own re-sources, like many less gifted people, and with a basket 102 THE UNION STOCKYARDS 108 of rosy apples on her arm she made her debut at thestockyards as Mary the apple woman. Appul, seer?she said to the first man she saw. The man , and the sight of the blushing Baldwins so earlyin the morning gave him a taste for apples which heretains to this day—to Marys profit. Day in and dayout, rain or shine, snow or fine, Mary walked from pento pen, from stable to stable and from office to office,repeating the magic formula, Appul, seer? whichin
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