AN IRISH HORSE TRADE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 36

AN IRISH HORSE TRADE.

The following story was told to a clerical friend in the West of Ireland by a countryman named Dinney Cooley :— " Good morrow, Dinny; where did you get the horse?" " Well, I'll tell your reverence. Some time ago I went the fair of Ross, not with this horse, but another horse. Well, sorra a wan said to me, ' Dinny, do you come from the Aist or do you come from the ,Wesht ? ' and when I left the fair there wasn't Wan to say, • Dinny are you going to the Aist or are you going to the Wesht ? ' Well, your reverence, 1 I rode home, and was near Kilnagross, when I met a man riding along the road forninst me. * Good evening, friend,' said he. ' Good, evening, friend,' said I. ' Were you at the fair of Ross?'sez he. 'I was,' sez I. , 'Did you sell ? ' sez he. • Would you bye ? ' sez I. • Would you make a clane swop ? ' sez he ; 4 , horse; bridle, and saddle,, and all ? ' sez he. ' Done ! ' sez I. Well, your reverence, I g,ot down off ay my horse,- not this horse, but the #th.er horse, and- the man got down off. ay his horse, that's this horse, not the other horse, and we swapped and rode away. But when he had gone about twenty yards he turned round and called after me. ' There niver was a man from Eoss, sez he,'butgould put his finger in the eye ay of a .man from Kilnagross, 7 sez he ;. ' and that horse,' sez he, ' that! swopped with you,' sez he,: •is blind ay an eye,' sez he. Well then,' your reverance, I turned upon him, and I. called out to him : ■ • There niver was a; man fro,m Kilnagross,' sez I, ' but could put hie two . fingers in both the eyes ay a man from Boss,' sea I { • and that horse that I- shopped with. you,' sez 1 1, *is blind ay both his eyes,', sez 'l."— n The Spectator. '

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