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were taken to Williamsport on White river, and there 

 put on the cars, shipped to St. Louis and sold. I will 

 state here, that while in the bottom lands in Arkansas 

 I saw in the fork of a cypress tree an eagle's nest, 

 the first and last I have ever seen. When I traded 

 for the cattle, I expected to take them to New Orleans 

 or Memphis, but learned that an ordinance had been 

 passed in both of those cities forbidding cattle to run 

 on the streets, because they were expecting an epi- 

 demic of cholera, consequently had to go to St. Louis 

 and closed out. I made this trip alone, and would not 

 be willing to make a similar one, with plenty of good 

 help, at my advanced age. 



I will not tax my readers with an account of my 

 trips in Texas, Missouri, Kansas and other states. 

 Before closing this part of my book let me advise that 

 when the country is in a prosperous condition, as a 

 general rule, the stock farmer had better keep good 

 stock, keep them in fine, saleable order, stay at home, 

 and advertise well, and he will generally meet with 

 success in selling his stock. 



I hope my friends will pardon me for a little egotism 

 in stating that I put up the first sale stable in Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., to sell jacks and jennets. I have sold 

 them in fourteen different states, and some that were 

 carried out of the Uinted States, and have frequently 

 sold jacks at different times to the same customers, 

 but up to date have never had a lawsuit or litigation 

 with one of my customers. He would take the jack 

 home, and do business with him, perhaps two or three 

 seasons, and get the growth and development of the 

 animal, and his services, and sell him for a good profit, 

 and come back, and buy another one or two. I have 

 sold several in that way. 



