. Highways and byways of the South. school. And Booker says, No, you aint. We dontwant your sort hyar. You can turn aroun and gohome. Yes, Bookers got some good ideas, if he is anigger. Thars Jake Durkin down at the corner, remarkedthe tall man on the doorstep. He aint been intown befo, I reckon, since his horse trade. What was the trouble ? I inquired. Why, Tuskegee is a great place for tradin at it all the time round back of the young, as yo see, but he thought he could doas well as the nex man in the horse business, an itwas time he had a try. So he rode into town,
. Highways and byways of the South. school. And Booker says, No, you aint. We dontwant your sort hyar. You can turn aroun and gohome. Yes, Bookers got some good ideas, if he is anigger. Thars Jake Durkin down at the corner, remarkedthe tall man on the doorstep. He aint been intown befo, I reckon, since his horse trade. What was the trouble ? I inquired. Why, Tuskegee is a great place for tradin at it all the time round back of the young, as yo see, but he thought he could doas well as the nex man in the horse business, an itwas time he had a try. So he rode into town, andthe horse he come on was a crackerjack — a first-classgood horse, right in his prime. Jake he went to thestable of one of our experts and he says, Ive startedout to do some horse-trading. Now, he says, hyarsmy horse. What have you got to put up against him ^ 84 Highways and Byways of the South ^ Oh, the man says, I dont want to trade/ But that wouldnt do. It only made Jake mo*anxious, and he kep urgin till the man says, Well,. Repairing a Chair hyars a good horse, and I dont mind tradin him if Ican get my price/ The horse looked fine in the stall, though he wasthirty years old — a good deal oldern Jake was — andthe man had paid about fifteen dollars for him. Well, howll yo trade ? says Jake. * Why, Ill give you five dollars to boot. A County Seat in Alabama 85 Ill tell you what Ill do, says Jake; you makeit ten and its a go. And the man did, and Jake changed his saddle onto the new horse and went off, feelin putty well satis-fied with himself. But everybody in town guyed said he couldnt get home with such a horse,and finally it kind of dawned on him hed made amistake, and he went back to the stables. See hyar,he says, theyre all a-tellin me I cant get home withthis horse. Well, I dont care, says the man. Thats noth-ing to me. It makes no difFrence to me whether yogo home or whar yo go. But I traded yo a fine young horse, says Jake. And I traded yo a fine old
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