MAN AND HOSS.

MAN AND HOSS.
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“I’ve observed,” said Deacon Granby,
“ınan and hoss are much the same:
Let ’em know that you’re the master and they’re likely to be tame:
But you give ’em cause for thinkin’ that you’re anyways afraid
And you’ll get yourself in trouble just as sure as eggs are laid.

“There was Joe Sykes owned a critter that had never run away.
Till Joe’s wife was in the buggy drivin’ by herself one day;
Well, she got to feelin’ nervous, and the hoss, of course, he knew,
So he kicked the rig to pieces, after which away he flew.

Joe himself was just as honest as the longest day was long.
And I reckon that he never had a thought of going wrong.
Till his wife got fool suspicions, and be- gan to fret and stew
Thinkin’ that he didn’t love ‘er and was ceasin’ to be true.
Joe himself was just as honest as the longest day was long.
And I reckon that he never had a thought of going wrong.
Till his wife got fool suspicions, and be- gan to fret and stew,
Thinkin’ that he didn’t love ‘er and was ceasin’ to be true.

If he spoke to other women she’d be Jealous of ’em, so
‘Twasn’t long before a widow (grass) eloped with Mister Joe! –
I of course, don’t wish to argue that he shouldn’t get the blame.
But it only goes to show you man and hoss are much the same.
-Chicago Record-Herald.