The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-14
a Wondcrful TrOttipg OK.

A member Of IL party of miners nnmcd
| Green, disgustcd with prospects mt Pixies
Peak, took, as his share of the camp outfit,
an OK and the forcpart of n cart and out OF
the latter made II sulky. With this lie
drove eastward and squuttcd on some land
near Denver, which hc cultivated One
day rs Green was driving his OK into Den
yer some fellows Oh horseback attcmrtcC ed
| to pass him. The OK, moved by some ap-
pnrcn; freak, quickcncd its steps until il
went Off in II swinging trot, leaving the
| horses behind. This was the first intimu-
ton Green had that his bobtnilcd OK Git was
bobtailcd) could trot. The idcn then pre-
| scntcd itself to him that if he could only
nccllstom il to trolting Il short distance on
certain piece of ground IL could out-trot
any horse in the ncighborhood. There was
| II gambler named tnndnlc i'm Denver ut this
tiYc who owned II horse That could do his
tmtlc. In 2.dO. Rnndulc was acquainted with
Greeh, and would occasionally drop into
| his quarters and praise his horse. A day or
two after Green's discovery Of his oxs
powers Rnndalc dropped in, as usual, tnlk
ing horse. Green remarked that he had
M OK that could bent Randalc's horse for
| three hundred yards. ltandulc laughed at
first, then got mad, and at lust offered to
bet ten to one that IL could not he done.
The bet was promptly taken, and they nd
journcd to the prepared pIncc. The OK
wna bnckcd up to /. little hand cart VIII G
everything was ready, away they went
Sure enough, at the end of four hundred
yards the OK cnnlc in ahead. On the spot
l{nndnlG bought half the OK for 5000. The
| and the whole city turned ont to see the re-
trNtlt,
Again il was victorious, and amid The Wild
est excitement passed the limo nix lengths
nhcnd. Every day thereafter the OK de-
fcatcd horse or two, and there soon he
came popular demand for Il share in the
animal Accordingly II company was formed
with joint stock of 81, luO being sixty
four shares Of 500 each, The stock went
alike hot cakes, and soon sold above par
In week, during which the OK had won
several more races, the stock was quoted on
the gambling tables, and passed for 81, 600
share. At last Il horse sired i'm san Fran
cisco cnnc along, and II trial Of speed was
made up between him and the on. On the
day appointed il WAS estimated that there
were ten thousand people present. The OK
took the lend from the start at the one
hundred yard pole he was length and u
half ahead; and Mt the one hundred and
fifty it had become three lengths; at the
two hundred and fifty tho distance had
widcncd into five lengths and tho OK still
gaining. But when within dozen yards
OF tho winning post the OK became tired,
and made up his mind to stop. Accordingly
hc planted his front fcct md refused to
hudge. Moral sunsion, profnnc abuse, physi-
| cal ill-usagc, all failed to move him and the
horse quietly trottcd past and took the race
From that minute the stock sank from
81, 900 share to ono siNty-lourth of the
value of the OK ~ meat. Mnny efforts were
| nt,crwnrd made to Corrcc the animal into u
trot, hut all rnticcmcnt and persuasion,
gentle or otherwise, failed, and he never
troltcu again.