The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-16

Ut J0e posi- anu IL was 700 luue lpT u0 " hVp
Into the ring and lay enough down &c. win
$4,000 for the yellow man and still have $4,000
to the good myself. Il was a sore game that.
09S' 4 fn fiR n s. Z sa iGr to to the darkey. you've
turned this trick and you'll get the $500:
your trail, Chop AWAY from here and I'll see
'H%'f Knows yo' viii boss said the yellow man.
giving, me that triumphant grin OF his: and no
fSceed R a1s TGfiddt i f9 sSgp th or rail- Il t8 snko a IN ra sse
fengths 70 tie BAD and he tralled alter ne
nobSdS else could. tthas pay 6oy, was riSfaSinE
AT the stretch. turn the boy let out q couple
g, links and the nag Ioined the front bunch.
a ams w SoS 6 GTe q short Il rhf head az i ana ma Il in Tas FUNNY H't To-
Scattered, all Kinds of "Govern@enf;e earned
flaps Of despair. / watched to see II there'd
be any, 6oller about anything when the boy
confirmed all right. l vent around and did
my own, eolleetinG; and several Of the poor
S Sfser the Of r sspt 81 she had bot TO t "a on / hS Of but SH' o n IS
the thing came along and eashed their tickets.
/ found my yellow man waiting for me. on the
S SSsstSs i I gave ri ue the d"a $500. N 7 SAW y that be
got a ticket and started for San Francisco the
months later that in an attempt. to learn how
ESfiERssiT 5S Ire t he had died d.. in a Ph 9sIs Sc j saS," after
The eX-ringer operator was plunged In
meditation for q while. the others remaining
sympathetically, silent. and then he resumed
"Next to the worst Jolt I ever got-and the
one Of my plugs with two .whitewa 'hed barrel
spots and q ~whitewashed forehead star got
rained on at the post. practically out Of : clear
so ses s& out te 81 t iTos sta Ee1 o g Marsla 1S'; oS Saa fences ! "ss
next to, that Jolt. the way one OF my boys
West Virginia was pretty bad. / had tongue
hammered the Rid pretty hard two or three +
f moas.s 81 weren't Snss FS due q VIII WIN AND i dldn't want
'em to win. and he got sulky. l tried to coddle
him an up t6 q H IUs, fS SsI ! ~ hpd tb q F fsIr. G SoS / enc tSo TO Bei I
had him all right on my stalf again, The real
good thing was a horse OF mine that had
there called a mile race for the I:55 running
class 1851 had a skate with me down
In las. and he could have done Il 10 three sec.
the plug lose three or four races during the
nese money In the estimation OF the West yir-
einians BY the time, the race that he was going
M mount nj ' sn@ our SfeG MUTUAL eeo4didsnce . seemed to
be Eessp n by the tine Rn, h the e.. Soo 9 in Thing nIS w SS
his sleeve for me all the time"
asked one Of the e%x;rlnger woIker's l%istensers.
a beautiful tight ride TO keep him from win
ming further on, But he put every graiter
that he knew. and w he knew new EN- s6pD ali; "a at b the fair
and made split terms with all Of them. That
IL, he put EN- on. on condition that he was 10
get hall. Of, each mans winnings on the race.
Now, | had figured on picking up 5000 or
lain awake nights making plans to meet possi-
be. bitches. 1t certainly wasn't treating mo
right. the way that boy did, j thought I'd
get as good as 25 20 i. anyhow. at the first
betting. 1 intended. to take q mess o. !that
confidently expected, and had o right, TO ex-
pect, that the naR's price. IN view OF what the
farmers down there thought OF him. would 20
on "S SasG t Rfth het mg w 90 'h sa Es'f I G sRSsIaa., | S rss
within twenty feet OF q one Of the twelve book
les doing business. i never saw such q scram-
BILE, even in the 5O-cent, field ut bheepshead.
q sogrs e / th SS1TIts ta asS w we're ~ Seb5s seE
knowing that II they were PLAYING the favor
Ito mi plug would be. going up ia price all the
time. Then / noticed a lot OF the educated
money, the coin OF the graiters that l knew
II they were Rubes enough to Blay q fevorite
IN the last race on getaway day. 30 drew
close to the bookiss' stRnds-as close as could
get-and then l found that they were al writ
Not a horse In the race but my horse. II, was
a staEgerer. that Was. OF course. Ihought,o OF
had done It. When. / finally was able 70 get
up e the bookiss found that my Plug prisSS
on, and / was 80 dIsEusted mat l stayed on al
together. although / kneWmy horse Was going
TO win. He did win. The boy couldn't peach
SscASss hIS TetsISSSR p h eHt 6ssR d too Sis; s sSs
race. GOT o6 twenty feet and told nae All about
n = then boltOd haven't seen him since"