The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08
T., Tas .iyts.s1V Tyss4.er.' LOH. THE RICH INDIAN.
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 Experience is valuable-wor,h ,he oney and anxiety i, costs" said Bar
 4n Flash of :" The Hole-in-the-Wall.' bra cularly.
 Bah. hits no sich thing. mere copy [beok olap-trap, tha, talk Q yourn, Flash, ,eplied Doc. Dunlap, as he carefully a;ed beer keg back to a comfortable angle, and slowly adjusted his tired form .hfeon. I'm too oP an worlly-wise to shout an c'co to enny sieh darned non- sense. True eggsperiens, the kin ,ha, s!cks 10 a man thru lite. an then shows IS effecks in funeral tha, is shame ar soner to all surivin' kin, costs in- u.ely too much. Hit breaks wun all up sno' the worf. I've travefd. I've ben .hyar often. I've seed the elehnt, an, gosh. the cussed beast so, down. so, down on me. plump, sah, an smash d n nash'd me fat,er'n Arkinsaw war honds is today Ye see, boys, thirty years ago when mummy wus no sirainssI l ,o ne, l made lee,le speculashun in aoss an humum flesh ,ha, even,ehually l reaooced me to povrity an likewise, the .e:.,ed convickshun that whatever mebbe h. vAlyue attached to eggsperiens. hts syer an alters found on the side of the ! 2a..y ownin' the winnin' hoss. Correct, yo. say: Of eo'se. Well. 10 ,os long l s:h my story an mouellze no mo. ipp'. an tuck trip 10 ol' kainsuoky, aF when returned, sh,ch't back with me wierry Joe Banks, the li;tlest darkey
 an smar,es, jockey for his age, foalded
 is' nineteen years afore, ever seed, an Aiso, blooded hoss called Hog-Eye." Iog-Eye, Doc?'
 les, Hog-Eye-;ho', come 10 think CT It, the men of kaintucky did mis- f.rnounce hit Hawk-Eye. He wus a starter an a stayer, tell you-,hc fines, sn fastest hoss ever interdooced 10 ;he srass-fed plugs of this hyar country. An he praved hit; for agin an agin did
 suckers all over Arkinsaw back = ;heir scrubs an want O )edgment agin Hog-Eye an me-an' l raked in their shinin' dollars ev'y,ime. Bu, the day came at last when neither odds or brag would perswade the boys to try ,he:r luck jus' wunst mo. No; they'd enuff, an they knowed it. In fac, wun whole seeson pass't with noshin' to do. Nary a race could make. Then, hayin' heerd heap of Homing Loh, Choctaw, Twin lp in the Nashun bout fifty miles from hyar, rode over to see him an his hoss. fear, Pete, that was said to be ligh,nin amper. One glanse at the Pear, wun's shor,ness of limb and leetle mus sle showed me that Hog-Eye could run a foot to his inch; an, of co'se, tackled Loh for early race for big mummy. lrgun-hke, he wus suspishus of the white man an (natcherly, mebbe1 of his talk. bai seed oodles of cash an cattle ahe' d Ia. pup in summer time. His lander r' a, last, an we both put up forfts but 70; till I'd agreed in writin, to all his :ondishuns- An they wus steep wuns- hun stockholders, lnjun jedges an h. m ground for track. All right; who seers. tho, l, an tuck my pen an made my mark, with a happy smile an a long Sigesmarole of a H'urish, for l knowsd HogEye'd hav' an easy walk oyer.
 The day appointed dooly come, an si,h ev'y dollar could raise, beg, or oorrer, am accumpni'd by about twenty or thirty other ,oler'bly pale faces an joe Bunk, 1 put in an appurince at the place D meetin' an, good Lawd, found full i've ,housan' cra.y lnjuns in camp. drunk an still a-drinkin', ye.lin', shooun' agh,in', runnin' quarter races, an raisin' ne devil an my hair ia ten ;housan' out iandish an onlawfl ways Joe Bunk xus bad skeered, an showed it. wus, too. but kep, hit blow the suriiss.
 And your twenty or thirty friends .'
 Miles away, on the back trail. They'd tuned tail an broke for home as soon as they'd fairly seen an heerd the rcd fusyina'
 4Tuek big drink, give Banks two, an faced faAe ike man who moved Jus' what his hoss could do. Besides, here could be no haciin' down, kr l couldn't ford to brit tAe sho0san' d. reddy up. So, men Loh walkt up to Chid Ruffurufez, the seaksholder, an' bse the last cent we hAd-S4ooo in all, not eountin' the thousanp jus' menshuned."
 Nine thousand on such a race! By Ceorge, that vas bold"
 .Yes, sirrse, nine thoasan' so T, an', wuss still, not mo nor six or mebbe seven thousan' wus bored mummy. We'll, a few minits fore time wus called, iorty or fifty young lnjuns straddied their mustangs an purceeded to parshilly clear the track by ridin' over hit a, full speed- Mos, of the crowd scattered long at 20, outen their way in Ii.fy an' all