Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1893-01-20
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A FAST HORSE.

How Farmer scang's Mare Made n Mile
In Two Minutes and -Four Second.
They were talking about horses, and
more particularly about Nancy Hanks
wonderful record of 2:05A. Everyone
seemed to be more or less impressed
with the mlrvcllousnoss Of this record
except old Mr.. Scaggs, aretired farmer.
shes fast, yes" he said. But l
oncet owned pare up on the farm as
could beat her. That mare was light
min on legs Polly was her name
named her after Mrs. Sea ygs's mother,
and finer womIn you never met. She
could bake all around any other woman
in the country, an when IL came TO me
bein' sick, she'd nurse me tenderlier
than as il wasn't a son-in-law at all,
but her own boy. My, how she could
trotr
"Your IN ,ther-in-law2' asked one Of
the circle
"No; the boss" snappsl Seaggs, with
fire in his eye "Fm tai kin about the
boss. bought her when she was eight
years old from old Mrs Tompkins- She
wasn't mach on looks, Mrs. TomplSins
wasn't, but she was business all
through When her husband died she
took charge of ths grocery, an added a
millinery dsp .rtmsnt TO 1t, nd by Joel
inside OF yctr shs was a BILE to close up
the grocery MI do nothin' but make
BATS. TonpSius used to hitch her up
to the delivery wagon, you know, but
of course"
"You don't mean osay that any man
was ever mean enough to hitch his wife
up to gtosery wagon, and make her
haul the plcita res about town." queried
the inql! itvo member OF the party.
"Ain't said nothin' o. the kind" re-
torte Scaggs. Don't you get too
funny I'm tallxin about the boss /
was g)in' on T. tell we how when old
Mrs Tompl1ins got maxim two-dollar
hats for the women folks nd sellin' 'em
TO EN- for ten, she give up the grocery
busine $, nd so didn't have any use for
the h)5s old Tonp'Sins had used for
drvin his delivery wagon. II happened
Iwlltsl h1,s but that time, nd so
called on old Mrs Tompkins TO talk
it over She was only eight years old
at the time, and hadn't much style
about her, though she was calculated to
be Eastern anything else in town.
asst old Mrs. Tompki IS what she'd take,
md she says twenty-four dollars
That's pretty high for an eight-year
old, says |. I'll give yc a dollar md a
haf year for the hoss. That's twelve
dollars"
'Mabe it two and she's yours, says
Old Mrs. Tompkins,
"'rhrow in a hat for my wife says
!, md it goes
Done" says she.
so | bridled her, paid the money,
md led her home. Few days later some
| o. the boys, KNOWN as | had sportin'
/ blood, came an asst me to let Polly trot
on mile track for the record. My wife
didn't want inc TO at first because she
was little off her feed, nd didn't APP
prove OF racin' anyhow, but when the
boys offered purse of ten dollars IL
| she could beat 2;l0. she let up. SO said
AL right AMI we set date"
"Well, what was the result2" asked
the inquisitive youth
1.-TWO four for the mile" said Soaggs.
1.-TWO four2" cried the whole circle at
once,
yep" said Scaggs but it was the
track as helped her There was some
thin in the track as had ought to
give some o. the credit, for the old mare
couldn't boat more'n four minutes at
the county fair grounds"
What was the special quality OF the
track. Scaggs? asked one of the party.
WAL, sal Seaggs slowly, las far
US ! could make out. II mile on our track
warn't more'n half mile on any
other. llarpor's Magazine.