The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-20

present surroundings. He had been
originally raised TOWN the Derby,
but his*present oWner-he of the char.
sbnrly could give odds for. 81 $SSgs. sss:sa
fSSos thinking byssWay Of showing
what could do turned half d hand
spring, flung my#starboard leg over
! the deck of the animal, y caught his
Eforesail with one hand and the hal,
yards with the other, and with loud
hail to <sStand clear! attempted to
swing him from his mornings.
+ For a. moment he stood motionless
and tremblingg--not as if rooted to the
spot, as the poetic tackle phrases, but
as if anchored by q pile-driver. The
next moment he WAS off like shot.
lie tore down the alley and Whirled
around the corner into u CROSS street,
with a momentum that set my arms
and legs flying out straight from his
quarter deck like the spokes Of q
wheel; and anybody but sailor would
have been wrecked at once. But Ben
Hurlyburly never yet put to sea in any
craft for the purpose Of going to the
bottom.
ldug my hands and feet into his bul-
warks, and sWore that nothing but
death should part us this side OF the
Betsy Neyersink.
+. l. felt then that a horse Withribs and
hips was indeed u treasure; that one
without these prominent appurtenan-
ces would have been utterly worthless.
Ny grasp would hold.
The road from Kingston down to
Lighters Point, where the old barky
lay. V'&s II winding town road. well
shaded and tolerably clear.
Before had half recovered from the
momentum with which l had whirled
roty hair and single eye-was cy,nsci-
entiously opposed to Ill racin3, and
Withdrew him from the course just
after lie had been fully trained for vic
tory.
This appeared to lne t. be about the
kind Of Il horse Captain Fjli@ree want
ell, but still I might have hesitatca at
the pvice--two hundred do!!;ara-bnt
for ;in examination of the animals
eyes. That decided Inc. They were
entirely unlike III colcv, one being
properly known as q watch eve ::
and it occurred to me Immediately
that this gaya him the superior qual-
lificatlon Of steering two courses at
once--alli 50, Ill the better for y sail.
Or.
closed the bargain without further
delay and paid over the money. [ had
already decided that | would ride NV
purchase back to the ship, and as [
had concluded all my business with
this last purchase, had nothing to 10
but to mount and set sail.
This did without further parley.
| had never been much Of q rider Of
that sort i'll my life, but I had seen
those lively chaps at the circus do it
fellows who had never hauled ont a
Weathering in Il gale Of wind, OF
Skinned out on the yards in hurri-
cane; and knew that whatever they
could do an old sailor like Ben Uurly-
around the corner into the cross-street,
my craft had dashed down it. pursued
by vagCant boys and dogs, and taken a
sharp tack into this river road, along
which we spun at Il rate that made my
head tingle as it had been Samson,
and Deli.;sh S shears We're f,lrrOWing
my scalp.
The boys and dogs pursuing fell out
at every jump, and cries grew less and
less as we tore along. Below the town
two OF three men Sprang Up to stop ME.
but as quickly furieA sail and cleared
of, like oyster boats before all ;.dyHn-
cling hurricane.
Straight as an arrow from . bow,
sped to my destination. rs ii he had
known my exact course, the animal
steerei direct for Lighter Point.
1t first l tried hard to tone him
down to steady sailing, but soon gave
it up US impossible. He had the wind
abaft his beam, ana evidently knew
the advantage.
The vague doubt which had arisen
in my mind when | first heard that
the animal had been originally raised
to win the Derby Was now no longer
there.
It Was evident that lie had been
raised to Win.
\ brace of hounds hunting i'll Il
tl;icllet half way down to the Point.
hearing the rush, came out and gave
chase. Il they had ever heard in Dog
land, OF the ''FlyiDg Hj,ntsn&n. no
doubt they assumed that they saw him
then. But they could not follow where
Pegasus led. and were left hull down
almost IS soon IS they had started.
Flecked with foam, and covered
with dust, the great. powerful horse,
steaming like all engine, and Ben Hun
lyburly sticking like q fly to q wheel,
we went rushing as a sweeping sa'lop,
down to the river landing and wharf
where lay the oil barl<y at Lighter $
Point.
had caught sight eft Old Captain
Filigree pacing The deck, swinging his
speaking trumpet. which he never did