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" Whip ! Can't use no whip on her. 

 I jist carry along a pocket full of stuns 

 and tetch her up ahead a leetle. That 's 

 whar she needs it. Don't need no stir- 

 rin' up behind. Too gol darned smart 

 there aready." 



" Where did you buy her, Jim?" 



" Buy her? I haint never bought no 

 hosses. Aint no use a-buyin' 'em. Traded. 

 Allers traded ! Leastways, most allers 

 traded. They 's men that '11 pay a hun- 

 dred dollars cash down fer a hoss, but 

 them folks can't get ahead none. Bought 

 my fust hoss, come to think. I was down 

 to Stony Creek and they was a-loadin' a 

 schooner fer York, and the feelin' come 

 over me all to once that I wanted to go 

 fur a travel, and I says to the cap'n, says I : 



" ' Cap'n, what '11 you take to let me go 

 to York with you ?' 



"'Come on, Jim,' says he, 'and help 

 me load up and I '11 take you down and 

 back if you '11 help both ways.' 



" That 's how I got my start. Kinder 

 curis, aint it, how a feller '11 git a start from 

 a feelin' that comes over him and he 's in a 



