Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-01-06

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Their money on his judgement. And
Sol swore a great oath that he would
make it even eff it took him year to
do it. And he challenged the owners
NV Calico to run BIazus agin, week
from that day, which they promptly
accepted, the money bein put up on
the spot. Our people, them Nv the
the Corners, wuz goin to share in
Sols belief agin, and risk ther dueats
on Blazes wunst more, but | smelt a
large sized mice. "Not any Blazes
for me-" sed l to myself, and SO | sed
to all NV the Corners. "Sol hez sold
us out'' wuz my sollum belief and
constant remark, and | believed he
would do it agin. "Don't touch
Blazes," explored my fellow-towns-
men, "for wat he did to-day, he will
do agin. Let us git even by backin
Calico"
| he'd seen the rider NV Blazes,
privately, and he ASHFORD me that he
he'd not throwd the race, that Blazes
he'd did his level best, and that Calico
wuz the best boss, and Good git away
with him easy. Don't bet agin
Calico" sed the ingenious youth,
she's a singed cat, and ez for Blazes,
eff Sol actilly believes in him and
backs him enuff. he's a gone goose.
Theirs dozen better goers haulin
wood, to-day"
/ agreed with the boy, and so did
the Corners generally. We looked
upon Sol ez misguided, stubborn
man, who had let his parshality for a
certain breed NV bosses git the better
NV him, witch wood Iced him to certain
room. We did not perpose to foller
him, tho out nv respect for him we
didn't say nothing to him about it.
But we raised all the money we Good
git, and we went to that race, and we
found there set Nv strangers, who
had examined both bosses, and he'd
made up their minds that Blazes wuz
the best boss, and on their opinyun
they WIZ willin to stake their shekels.
We wuz rejoist at findin SIGH easy
victims, and we sailed in heavy, that
we mite not only git our money back
but mite make little profit. We
took everything they offered, and so
satisfied wuz we that we give EN- odds
ez we did before. 1t was dead open
and shet thing that Sol wuz a
deceived man, and that he he'd let
his pride run away with his judgment,
and that he wuz again to be wunst
more the victim NV them Bulger fell
lows, witch he'd taken him before.
Pityin the poor man, we atfeckshu-
nately implored him to draw before it
wuz everlasting too late. But Sol sed
he'd see US teetotelly blest fust, and
give us warnin thet he shood win the
fust two heets, and kerry OFF the
plumber.
But this did not deceive US. We
he'd the experience Nv the other race
and we he'd the word Nv the boy
which rid Blazes before, and conse>
kently evry dollar witch the Corners
he'd left from its fust disaster was put
up on Calico. sol was aperiently
angry, but we laft at him sardonikelly,
and told him that we knowed our
little biz.
The fust beet wuz run, and to our
intense delite, Calico got it, tho it wuz
ruther a close thing. Their wuzn't
more then a neck atween 'em, and
Blaxes showed sum going power that
we hadn't give him credit fur. And
it didn't seem to us that Calico did
quite quite ez well ez he did afore,
tho his rider sed he never showed till
he got warm. We he'd faith bigger
than several mustard seeds, and bet
our watches and overcoats.
The next beet wuz ruther surprise.
Blazes showk stayin qualities witch
we didn't expect, and Calico made
the widest work imaginable. He
broke badly and the result was that
Sols boss won the beet by jist a neck
leavin our money to be decided by
one beet.
There is suthin solemn in such a
situation. When your everlasltin all
depends onto one heat there is a eggs
citement about it that is ruther too in
tense to be plesent. Ez Boneyparte
felt when he was waitn for Grouchy,
ez a man feels when his all is on a
single kerd at faro, ez one feels when
waitin for the verdik NV petty joory,
so the Corners felt while them horses
wuz a soorn.
Need teel the sicknin tale? No
Soffice it to say Calico want nowhere.
The rider NV Blazes simply Civ him
his he'd and uttered demoniac yell,
apd he shot ahead like arrer, and
come into the score before Calico he'd
made up his mind that he was ex-
pected to run.
And then the strangers witch he'd
bet on their Judgment, walkt sweetly
away with all our money, and our
promissory notes, and our watches
and our overcoats-sich oV them as
he'd EN- to bet-and they smiled
politely aud remarkt it was the for
choon of ov war, and that it would
be our turn u6At, auu Oiu uo $50
as camly as tho they wuz princes IN
disguize.
We never saw them strangers no
more. but we heerd that they all stop
ned at Sol's house that mite, and that
thew he'd the widest kind ov mite
ov it. They left all ov our notes with
Sol to colleckshun, and he'd the sellin
oy our watches and eyer,astingly lost
clothin. And this perfdjus Sol and
the ekally perfdius owner Nv Calico,
immeietly bot farm apiece, and bit
moo wings to their houses, and sent
Their daughters off to skool. and Mrs
Lofiin ez she appeared in new plated
harms, remarkt that her husbands
success demonstrated the power Nv
mind over matter, and that intelleck
aIlus wood succeed ez agin mere broot
strength. Sol aboozed us for not fol-
lerin his advice, and sed the Corners
he'd showd SIGH a lack of confidence
in him that eff it wantid to send him
to congris he shood decline.
Iwore thin trowsis all that winter,