They found that he was sober, and
all that ailed him was that he had not been salted, and explanations
followed and he was sent to his room by the stairs.
[Illustration: "THIS IS TOO ALLFIRED MUCH!"]
The next day some of the Knights heard the story, and it cost the Wausau
man several dollars to foot the bill at the bar, and they say he is
treating yet. Such accidents will happen in these large towns.
SEVEN YEAR OLD HORSES.
An old farmer once said, "What a year it must have been for colts seven
years ago this spring." No person who has never attempted to buy a horse
can appreciate the remark, but if he will let it be known that he wants to
buy a good horse, he will be struck with the circumstance that all the
horses that are of any particular account were born seven years ago.
Occasionally there is one that is six years old, but they are not plenty,
Now, those of us who lived around here seven years ago did not have our
attention called to the fact that the country was flooded with colts.
There were very few twin colts, and it was seldom that a mother had half a
dozen colts following her. Farmers and stock raisers did not go round
worrying about what they were going to do with so many colts. The papers,
if we recollect right, were not filled with accounts of the extraordinary
number of colts born.
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