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"What happened to the watch?" he asked. "I got rid of it." "In a horse-trade?" "No, I got a town lot with it." "In Lebanon?" "Well, sort of in Lebanon's back-yard." "What's the lot worth now?" "About two thousand dollars!" "Was it your first town lot?" "The first lot of Mother Earth I ever owned." "Then you got a vote on it?" "Yes, my first vote." "And the vote let you be a town-councillor?"
"What happened to the watch?" he asked. "I got rid of it." "In a horse-trade?" "No, I got a town lot with it." "In Lebanon?" "Well, sort of in Lebanon's back-yard." "What's the lot worth now?" "About two thousand dollars!" "Was it your first town lot?" "The first lot of Mother Earth I ever owned." "Then you got a vote on it?" "Yes, my first vote." "And the vote let you be a town-councillor?"
Lincoln liked old-fashioned words, and never failed to use them if they could be sustained as proper. He was probably accustomed to say 'gallows, and he never adopted the modern word 'suspender." On a certain occasion Lincoln appeared at the trial of a case in which his friend Judge Logan was his opponent. It was a suit between two farmers who had had a disagreement over a horse-trade.
I never saw my journal after, nor did I ever keep another, except for a portion of the time while travelling abroad. Often since a fear has crossed my mind lest that book might turn up yet, and fall into the hands of some malicious person who would publish it. I know its appearance would cause me as much heart-burning as my youthful horse-trade, or the later rebuke for wearing uniform clothes.
As he neither hung about the saloon, "got up" a game, nor provoked a horse-trade, it was immediately surmised that he was looking for some one, and each man searchingly questioned his trembling memory whether he had ever done Buffle an injury.
They both remembered that Hennard was close by at the time of the quarrel over the Horse-trade. There was much that explained itself and much of mystery that remained. But one thing was clear.
My experience in a horse-trade ten years before, and the ridicule it caused me, were too fresh in my mind for me to communicate this presentiment to even my most intimate chum. The next summer Martin Van Buren, then President of the United States, visited West Point and reviewed the cadets; he did not impress me with the awe which Scott had inspired.
I guess I'll let the lady fix the table; she looks as if she knowed how." He got himself out of the room again, and then Marcia, who had made him some embarrassed thanks, burst out in praise of his pleasantness. "Well, he ought to be pleasant," said Bartley, "he's just beaten me on a horse-trade. I've sold him the colt."
Larry Moore was a Kentuckian by birth, and had many Kentucky characteristics. He was boisterous but kind-hearted, boastful and good at a fist-fight, decently honest in most matters, but would cheat in a horse-trade. Early education is sometimes greatly at fault in its inculcations, and this was, in Moore's case, peculiarly so.
In a few minutes Lincoln was seen approaching with a wooden saw-horse upon his shoulders. Great were the shouts and the laughter of the crowd; and these increased, when Lincoln, surveying the Judge's animal, set down his saw-horse, and exclaimed: "Well, Judge, this is the first time I ever got the worst of it in a horse-trade!"
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