The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-29

gest boy in school, so he promised to be
upon the track, and upon the bay, at the
hour appointed, n Ran would be sure TO
wake MN rev moments beforehand for
Wess, like many other village boys, had
the rural habit of going to sieep about ass
early as the chickens. Ii was arranged
tnat Wess, on retiring, was to tie one
OF his toes and drop the other end out of
the window, and Ralf was 10 pull gently
uhtll Wess gave return pull to signify
that he was awake.
About II O'Clock WEISS awoke from a
dream that one Of his feet was cannon
and had shot off one Of his toes, when
was soaring athwart the armament like
meteor OF the first magnitude His con-
science aWoke OF the same time and suu-
gested that there was stil time TO recon-
slider the subject and to consult his fatn-
err but about this time his memory also
got fully awake, with that word isis
sy' IN it. so he dressed quickly, slipped
out Of the house and into the stable lie
could not help thinking thar it must be
very near Sunday morning, and that IL
would be simply TO take part in a race,
even as pacemaker on sunday.
The bay seemed to think so, too. for
despite all of Wess' reassurng words
the. animal went about the single box
stan as If he did not want to leave H.
and as the bride was forced into his
mouth in the darkness he gave WEISS a
severe bite; the bay had never done such
a thing before and ne made a lot of trol,-
BILE while being saddled, which was quite
annoying. for Wess was doing eVerythfne
by sense of feeling-he did not dare lgh;
lantern.
Finally, when Wess opened the street
door and led the bay into the moonlit
road, intending TO lead him slowly until
out of sight and sound of the house.
the animal tugged backward. Wess
had heard that animals knew the days
of the week; now he believed il, and it
seemed simply awful that a horse. an
animal without a soul, had more sense
of propriety than he. There was stin
sissy"
Wess found great crowd at the race
track, lighted cigars ends were about
as numerous as stars in the sky, near
the starting end were two traders Wag-
ons from which whisky was being sold
as fast as the owners could I'LL tin cups
at the spiggots. Wess had but little time
in which TO be Mortified, for Raft, on
the roam mare, hurried to him and said:
- thought you'd never come; 1 was
afraid I'd have to ride without my pace
maker-say. what have you been doing
to the bay? Has he been hard used
lately He looks thin"
Hes excited l guess" Wess replied.
He isn't used to being taken out in
Ready Ready! Readyv shouted
the starter. This was the customary
Sycamore signal. II was also the local
custom to Zine up" the horses and start
them with a pistol shot, so the roam and
the bay refined into line side by side.
Bang
Al the first click of the trigger Raft
gave WesS' bay q savage back cut with
his whip, ana the pay SpEang forward
with a bound that nearly threw Wess
from the saddle. The boy had never be-
fore seen the animal start in that style;
neither he nor his father ever used the
whip or spur while riding, so Wess de-
termined to give Ram a piece of his mind
after the race ended, and say that If the
horses temper or spirit proved to be in
iured in any way Ran would be to blame
At the quarter post Wess looked back to
see where the roam was; why, there We're
several other horses between the bay and
the roam marel Well, it served Ran right:
Wess hoped he would have a hard strug-
gle to get the roam up to her pacemaker.
If 1t weren't for those awful arithmetic
lessons that were to come during the term
s--cuhe root was among them, Wess would
have been inclined to win the race him
self-and if it weren't for the purse of $50
that was to go TO the winner, and the talk
that there would be aboutit, which surely
would reach his fathers ears. If only he
had consulted his father before taking out
the bay.
Then Wess saw an irregular shadow
at the end of the course, and the shadow
quickly separated into % or 80 parts. each
part being man; a few seconds later he
heard shout of 'tHi-yi-yi" and he found
himself passing the mile post, and the bay
( pulling at the bride as II he thought he
had taken contract to drag up one of
the towns pot sycamore trees by the
roots. 1t was not until the rattle OF hoofs
/ behind him stopped that the bay would
I allow himself to be pulled UP and turned.
] As Wess rejoined his defeated compete
tors man with a big black moustacne