25S THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER 



In the wilder parts of America Judge Lynch 

 settles accounts with horse-thieves, who are held in 

 detestation. In more civilised states the crime is 

 severely punished, though by a regular tribunal. A 

 cute Yankee once got back a large sum of money 

 by making a charge of horse-stealing against his 

 defrauder, as is pleasantly related by Sam Slick : 



' Felix Foyle lived in the back part of the State 

 of New York, and carried on a smart chance of 

 business in the provision line. Beef and pork and 

 flour was his staples, and he did a great stroke in 

 'em. Perhaps he did so to the tune of four hundred 

 thousand dollars a year, more or less. Well, in 

 course, in such a trade as that, he had to employ a 

 good many folks as clerks and Salter s and agents, 

 and what-not, and among them was his book-keeper, 

 Sossipater Cuddy. Sossipater (or Sassy, as folks used 

 to call him, for he was rather high in the instep, and 

 was Sassy by name, and Sassy by natur' too,) — well, 

 Sassy was a cute man, a good judge of cattle, a grand 

 hand at a bargain, and a'most an excellent scholar 

 at figures. He was ginerally allowed to be a first- 

 rate business man. Only to give you an idee, now, 

 of that man's smartness, how ready and up to the 

 notch he was at all times, I must jist stop fust and 

 teU you the story of the cigar. 



' In some of our towns we don't allow smokin' in 

 the streets, though in most on 'em we do, and where 

 it's agin the law it is two dollars fine in a gineral 



