Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1911 — Pretty Thin. [ARTICLE]

Pretty Thin.

The tail-of-the-season reform that swept over Coney Island might well have considered the welfare of the \wretched horses which are used for the “dime-ride” business. When the season closes they are auctioned off. and are knocked down to the bidders at next to nothing. Generally they are so skeleton like that* they are practically useless. At the end of this season a buyer bought an exceptionally attenuated specimen after he had been coaxed to! bid on him by numerous promises! made by the auctioneer, who wound, up bf saying: “Now, look a’here, boas, If you buy this hawse an’ you ain’t pleased with the animlle, you Just bring him back and get your money—see?" “Yes,” retorted the buyer; “but this is the last day of the sale, and the beast is so blamed thin he may die on my hands. Then, supposing I did bring him back, you probably wouldn’t be here to receive him.” “Oh, .well,” blandly replied the auctioneer, “if you do bring him back and we ain’t here, you kin just shove it under the door.”—Llppincott’s.