New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-13
1T WASN'T A PART OF THE BET.
NOW THE LOSER OF THE RACE WANTS TO
KNOW WHO BLEW THAT HORN.


A halo Of gloom as dark as stack of black cats
surrounded the usually jolly face OF Charley
the proprietor OF one Of the most popular chop
houses on the Row. and his customers sreauy
wondered thereat. Finally Of them asked him
why he was so sad, and the usually genial boni-
face unbosomed himself follows:
NIX, don't pellet In dos flying machines ore
a man vas to fly joost like a bird. ne would some
wings hat, don't IT."
II guess he would" replied one OF the listeners
"Ofe you want some flying machines" continued
the gloom stricken boniface, "puy NIT yourself
bicycles. They fast, i don't pehei
myself they could pc so. They can beat the horse
the steam engines undt the pand. l vas pretty
fat sometime since, undt my doctor says dot
want more outdoor air indt exercise. Ven he says
dot puy me horse dot could SO fast trot dot
the vees don't keep der wagon Budt der more
times | drive dot wagon undt horse, der latter
vas getting. My frendt Chris vat vas In DER
bicycle pisness he says dot die OF apoplexy ore
keep dot horse some longer. He says dot ne vas
too slow for me- undt / some bicycles should get
IT says to Chris dot my horse vas der fastest
pebble or der rscetracks, undt then he laugh undt
says dot he could gf some spades undt cards
undt peat mine plug horse 50 far as out OF sight
Ha, laughs urdt says, How he can 90 II ne ne
more ha, ha. init sarcasms IN It, C Snds
says eoe va o dot We races for some wine
pers for der push vat vas our frendts He also
says dot race on Friday, on dot racetracK oy
der ocean. ~ ,, -.
vel dot day comes .aroundt pretty quick. undt
der vas der biggest kind ofe crowd vat vas on dot
track. Der some judges undt refers, m ha
Watches dot hat stops on dem Bretty gvick the
miny. 1t vas a hot race. undt der grass eaten nre
pehindt us Bretty soon looks aroundt undt sees
Chris riding his bicycles like der tvel. i laughs,
ha undt shouts dot | see his kommenceInent
ION We vent faster undt faster. My horse trots
himself so fast dot / lose my hat undt laughs
oudt some more, because | knows vas Winning
Joost then hear Chris coming up behind undt he
saws Get ofe der earth or I'll run offer you.
Il smiles undt don't speak back. toost cnlrps
to mine horse because dot vas vat all goodt drivers
do der racetracks. undt We go along like places
We vas near to dot finish wire undt vas so happy
dot nearly fall out Of der PIGGY Chris vas IN
''Ail ofe soonness somepody plowed pig horn
so loud dot you hear IL tirteen miles. undt makes
a shout nit It, Der shout vas fish" Joost as
mine horse hear dot horn undt dot fish ne stops
himself so quick dot goes oudt Offer his pack undt
could tnk ofe I vas der puggy under undt my
head vas sticking threw der top I holler like der
tivel undt all der fellers get der PIGGY ofe mine
head undt pick me up: - ...
YIN dTt y oes r rner p minutes und
tirty-three undt four-ffth seconds
"'Vat you stop soon fore says der Judges.
don't you know dot you vas liable to pc ruled der
track ofe for pulling your horse? vas madder
dot never vas undt says don't pull mine horse
budt mine horse vas vonce fish horse. undt ven
he hear dot pig horn he himself stops. Ven l
saws dot I eif s. IL / knew who II vas dot pillow
dot horn undt shouts fsh,' der judges laughs undt
roll about on der grass
vine suppers haf to pay. Oh 1t vas a sad time fer
your uncle. don't it?"