One, for example, was named "Gold Bud;" and another, called "Sweet Violet," owing to her fine build, was sold for $3,705.

As the conversation drifted, sometimes into things serious, and then into a lighter vein, Mr.Coffman told a story about a man who had three fine calves.

One of them died, and, when his foreman told him, he said he was sorry, but no doubt it was "all for the best." "Skin him," said he, "and sell his hide." Another one died, and he said the same thing.

When the last and the best died, his wife said to him, "Now the Lord is punishing you for your meanness!" His reply was, "If the Lord will take it out in calves it is not so bad." I could not but moralise that the Divine judgments on us, for our sins, are not as severe as they might be, and that few of us get what we deserve in the way of punishment or chastening.

I also met a horse dealer, who said that he shipped some sixty horses every week to a commission merchant in Buffalo.