Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-07-27

I DEWEY AS A HORSE TRADER

UlUSt every onO SiSS, eohS" $50
at horse trading. Being quite as
much at home in the saddle as on the
quarterback, the admiral likes good
horse, but, while Admiral Montejo
and Spanish cruisers and gunboats
couldn't Tease him, combination OF
American blacksmith, horse trader
and imaginary defect got the better OF
him. This is the story told;
Admiral Dewey once had horse
named Nancy Lee. She had the
straightest gait of any saddler in
Washington, and speed and strength
to beat the best. She is pretty little
mare with a sorrel coat, two feet
white-leggined, and star between
her eyes shooting white ray all the
way down the soft, mousy-feeling
nose. She stands low, but is finely
nodded from eartip to fetlock, good
in action and more full of vigor than
many younger horse. The old adage
Like master, like horse" holds good
with Nancy Lee, for she hasn't show
steps and fancy dances, and gets
there without much pyrotechnic dis
play of blood and bone for use. And
Admiral Dewey went and got
another horse--that's part OF the
story, and what they call lone on the
admiral" Still, If he's more at home
in a coming tower than in saddle
it isn't his fault, and is better for the
country.
Nancy Lee came from Gen. Bealls
stock farm in Prince George county,
Maryland. Her dam was Eugene, a
three-quarter bred mare. and her
sire, Dickens, the famous four-mile
runner and the best longdistance
horse that the state of Maryland ever
produced. Thus Nancy Lee came by
remarkable endurance and speed.
Every morning regularly for several
years, during the admiral's stay in
Washington, he would ride her out
over the suburban roads, at swift,
steady trot, which, kept without a
break, would cover miles of country
in short time. There isn't foot OF
country in the District of Columbia
which Admiral Dewey and Nancy
Lee don't know by heart. There
came a time, however, when a most
yillianous blacksmith, who saw extra
money in bar shoe, accused Nancy
Lee Of having quarter crack. 30
the admiral began to look around FOL
another horse.
Now it happened that a brilliant
young sportman belonging to the
swell Chevy Chase club, Richard by
name, appeared on the scene.
"By George, Commodore he said
"I've got the very horse you are
looking for. just you wait day."
There is brush clump of white
washed houses some few miles above
Georgetown called Tennallytown
Fifteen brand new policemen had late
" been stationed there with fifteer
brand new steeds. Richard had hi
eve on one of these, belonging Il
Policeman Law. for which he hat
traded down at the horse bazaar
It had been guaranteed good, sount
and worker" and a fine looking
animal, with some extra good PAGES.
"say, Law, I'll give you $125 fol
that horse If can sell him. Thinl
I've got purchaser"
"All right take him. I got hin
down at the bazaar
So Dick brought the steed up tc
the Chevy Chase stables, had hin
promed and polished upand blanketet
Then Dick sat down. and with the ait
of Chevy Chase cocktail and his owr
D. enomenal horse imagination, wrot'
out a pedigree. He had writer
pedigrees ont before, but that Il
neither here nor there. II suffices tina
the pedigree for Dewey would nav'
staggered the Prince of Wales. L
there is one thing Dick knows BY
heart it is turf history. All the stat
high jumpers in creation, the PAGERS
the runners. the trotters' with worlt
wide fame. became ancestors to tha
bazaar crab. There was an ancestor
responsible for every >crick of thai
animals neck, every curve in his legs
every pace he possessed. his position II
standing, the lift of his head, TIT
strength of shoulder and the length
of limb, sires and grandsires. dams
Now, that was a horse which was
worth having.
"He's Thoroughbred said Dick
"vou dom. have TO look at his pedi
gree to know that"
"That's fact said the Comma
dore, getting knowing on horses al
at once; "you can tell by the way hi