New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-02

the first hest. tied him on the second. and
beat him with, neatness and dispatch on the
third. The big whiskered fellers who rep
resented Bulger kerried orr our money in
bsRe, and retired from the field in ez serene
frame nv mind ez 20 many dyin msrters.
Probably the msddest man that ever wuz
SEE n wuz Sol. He neerly killed his rider,
swearin that that unforc6nit yooth he'd sold
the race, and he'd half.rooined his Majors,
them ez he'd rieked Their money on bis judg-
ment And Sol swore.A great oath that he
wO I'd make it evepNf il took him q yeer to
do it. And he .6hallenged the owners Nv
Calico to run Blazes again, q week from
that day, which they promptly accepted,
the money bein put up on the spot. Our
lfeople. them NV the Corners, wuz g,in to
share in Soils belief agin, and risk ther
ducats on Blazes wunet more, but smelt
large sized mice. mot any Blazes fer
me, said to myself, and so sed to all NV
the Corners. "S0l hez sold us out," wuz my
sollum beleef and constant remark, and /
believed he wood do it agin. "Don't tutch
Blazes," implored my fello VITO wnsmeo,
''for wat he did to day he will do agin. Let
us git even by backin Calico"
Ihed seen the rider nv Blazes. privately.
and he aseho0red me that he had not
throwd the race, that B!azes he'd did his
level best, and that Calico wuZ the best
hose, and Good git away with him easy.
Don't bet a2iu Calico" sed this ingenious
youth, "he's singed cat. and ez for Blazes,
of Sol actiily behaves in him and backs him
enuff, he's a gone goose. There's dozen
better goers haulin wood tc-dsy."
agreed with thu boy, and SO did the
Corners generally. We looked upon Sol ez
. misguided, stubborn man, who he'd let his
parshality for certain breed Nv bosses get
the better Nv b m, which wood Iced him to
ortSsN W. - \ ,,nkv o. Ac11n
him, tho out nv respect for him we didn't
say nothin to him about it. But we raised
all the money We Good git, and We went to
that race, and we found there Q set uE
strangers, who he'd examined both hosses,
and he'd made up their minds that Blszss
wuz the best boss, and on Their opipyan
they wuz willin to stake Their shekels. We
wuz rejoist at 6ndin sich easy victims, and
We sailed in heavy, that We mite not only
git our money back, but mite make q
little profit. We took everything offer
give en- odds, ez We did before. 1t
wuz q dead open and shet thing that
Sol wuz ceceeved man, and that he ned
let his pride run away with his judgment.
and that he wuz ag0in to be wunst more
the victim Nv them Bulger fellows. wich
he'd taken them in before. Pityin' the poor
man. We affeckshunately implored him to
draw before it wuz everlastinly too late.
But Sol sed he'd see US teetotelly blest fust,
and give US waruin thet he shOod win the
fust too heets and kerry orr the plunder.
But this did not deceive US. We he'd the
experience Nv the other race, and We he'd
the word nv the boy witch rid Blazes before,
and consistently evry dollar wich the Cor
ners he'd left from its fust disaster was put
up on Calico. Sol wuz aperiently angry,
but We laft ct him sardonikelly, and told
Linn that we knowd our little biz.
The fust beet WIZ run, and, to our intense
delite, Calico got it, tho it WIZ ruther .
close thing. Their wuzn't mOre'n q neck
atween EN-, and Blazes showd some going
power that we hedn't give him credit for.
And it didn't seem to US that Calico did
quite ez we'll ez he did afore, tho his rider
sed he never showed till he got warm. We
he'd faith bigger than sevrel musterd seeds,
and bet our watches and overcoats.
The next heat wuz rather . surprize.
Blazes showed eteyig qualities witch we
work inns ginable. He broke badly. and
he result wuz that Soils hoes won the beet |
y fist neck, levin our mummy to be de- |
ided by ono beet.
Their is suthing eollum in sich situashen.
When yoor everlastin all depends onto one |
leet, Their is an eggscitement about II that |
. ruther too intense to be plesent. Ez |
ez q man feels when his all is on
> single keerd at faro, ez one feels waitin
Tor the verdick Nv petty jOOry, go the
Corners felt when them bosses wuz q scorin.
Need l tell the eicknin tale! No. Suffice
{ to say Calico want nowhere. The rider
Nv Blazes simply give him his he'd and ut
.ered demonlac yell, and he shot Ahed
ike arrer and come into the score afore
Calico had made up his mind that he wuz
expected to run.
And then the strangers wich had bet ON
heir judgment walkt sweetly away with all
,ur money, and 0un prOmissOry notes, and
,ur watches, and our Overc0ats-sich Nv US
z had em to bet-and they smiled politely
md remarkt it was the forenoon of war. and !
hat it wood be our turn next, and bid us
rood day ez calmly ez tho they wuz princes
n disgize.
We never saw them strangers no more,
'ut we heerd tibet they all stopped at Soils |
house that mite, and that they he'd tho |
Widest kind nv mite nv it. They left all |
,ur notes with Sol for colleckshun, and he'd |
ost clothin. And this perfidius Sol and the |
'kaily perfdjus owner nv Calico, immeji,ly |
,ot q farm apeece, and buit moo wings to |
her houses, and sent Their dauters off to |
kool, and Mr.. Lotin, ez she appeered in |
lew plated harms remarkt that her hus-
,andis success demonstrated the power nv
mind over matter, and that Intelleck alluz |
would succeed ez agin mere broot strength.
'ol aboOzed us for not follerin his advice,
md sed the Corners he'd showed SIGH lack
" confidence in him, that if it wanted to
end him to COngris he sh0Od decline.
l wore thin trOwsis all that winter, and
'ecum embarrassed to degree that never
God recover.
To them too unforchnit days ascribe all
~ subsekent misfOrchOOns.
The result NV the day wuz room at whole
ale. Dekin Pollock he'd lost half the
money that he'd bin raised to bid church
n Blazes, and the balance Nv it went ON
,alicO. The drekters NV the moo plank
Dad he'd bet all the bonds Nv. that instoo-
hin in the same way, and that enterpriz
7uz permanently busted; in short, the Cor
ers mostly walked home a miserable,
ankrupt set. So fur from bein able to 90
n with Our plank road, schoOlhouse, |
hurch, new tavern, and other enterprises,
hat wuz to make the town, Their wuzn'u
apitle enuff left in it to single henro0st,
nd from that encouragement it never re-
overd. They date everythin from "the
oss race that went agin u.s." jist ez other
eople speek Nv floods and SIGH. Every
ollar that the Corners he'd accumulated
rent in one fell swoop, and we were busted.
rom that time out we did nutbip, for we |
ed nothin to do with. That waz the end
4 Calverts.
The Corners got all Nv a sudden out Nv
onseet with Mr.. Lofiin. 1t WIZ diskivered
hat he and the man wat owned Calico wuz
ardners; that they beet Biazes first and
'alico the second time, on purpus to take
% in, and that the strangers witch bet both
ines wuz simply their confedrits. And
vat wnz wuss, the English boss wuz dis
ivered to be frod.
1t leaked out after about three years that
q never come from England at all; that Sol
ot him for 500 in the next county, and
hat he drove him forty miles to get him
hipped on car, that he might be brot in
roperly. And, what wuz wuss, it wuz dis