A HORSE TRANSACTION.

New Zealand Tablet, 17 October 1918, Page 46

A HORSE TRANSACTION.

At a recent sale of horses one “lot" was a poor, broken-kneed hack. The horse was brought forward, and the auctioneer began lauding what he .had to dispose of. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I now bring before your special notice a really first-class animal. Will anyone make a bid of one hundred pounds for it?” One of the onlookers made a bid of two pounds. “Really, gentlemen; this is too bad! An offer of two pounds for such an animal is simply ridiculous. Only the day before yesterday it did its two miles in six minutes, and two pounds is all that is offered for it! Have you all done at two pounds Going for two pounds — going for the mean sum of two pounds for the last time gone !” The purchaser took the horse away, and was not long in ascertaining that, instead of doing two miles in six minutes, it could not do one in an hour. He went back furiously to the auctioneer and asked him if he did not say the horse had done two miles in six minutes. “Most decidedly!” said the auctioneer. “And where might this event have come off?" asked the irate purchaser. “In a railway truck,” was the reply.