The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-06
RACE OF THE SAVED CAM Ell.
yt.rANK 70. s7'S BTG WHINING ar
TINE or GREAT WEED.
session with Muliisans Of Red Peppers
ul.sd With steamed Beer. Followed BY
the Appearance Of the Buckle Mste-Nem-
..is Catches . Bookmsker az . Volcano.

IN. Appearance Of the Buckle Mem
,,,s Catches = Bookmsker st . Volcano.
~ you want to get hunk. all you've got
n, do - Iust To wait. that's all. " dryly remarked
r,.Tonk No. y Of the Harlem club OF Former
Alcoholic Degeneraics, as he ate the end on
fresh Reina Victoria and produced his tur-
oloi. 40 encrusted match box.
vborenpon he proceeded to indulge In so
r,olonged a silence that the ex pectant Ex-
Tanks present gahed upon him neryously
Ard shifted uneasily in their chairs.
whats that. an installinent or a sampler"
,,ouircd Es-rank No. :. the p~arhanentarian
and kicker Has it got SO in this outfit that
ue'ys 20, 10 swallow EN- senally? Say. is
that going to be- continued In your next. Or
The Tonsorial Ex-Tank will shave one
AID, 81 Number Seven's cOuntenance, and
ono side only. II he exudes another kick dur
inc the session" said the Chief Ex-Tank. rls-
ing ponderously. Al the same time. II would
.sen 10 he M 10 Number Twenty-seven To
complete his parable
Somehow or another" went on EI-Tank
No -, irrelevantlv and dreamlly. i cou'd
r.o.t. not, get EN- right that winter. They
NAV have been running for Hogan. but they
wer.n', running for me. When I'd dig a sleeper
m and get IL right. and lose rest waiting for
rho dsy To 90 down the line on IL. confidently
s,necunR il nd be 80 TO / or better. the word
cot OIL, every time, by the underground. or
sore way or another. and the skate nd prance
10 The post with TO 5 on chalked in front OF
HI. n,me. and every piker and beanery worker
in San Francisco standing 10 go broke on him.
after they'd hammered the price down from
something like even money. Nope, couldn't
cot one over. Every one that ! looked over
and saw worked al gray dawn and sailed down
as the right goods the next time he went TO
the pump for long money had a Hanover or
n uindoo price tackled 10 him when the states
went I'D. You cant keep Q thing quiet Ia
Frisco, anyhow. It's everywhere in twenty
minutes. and no time for a new book, at that,
There are too many ~grafters ont there for
n GOOD thing 10 be kept quiet. and the Frisco
~erafters, unlike the bunch back this way,
null together. SO that II one of em gets wise
IN A long one that's due 10 be uncorked, it's
handed around 20 'em all. and the duck that
fxes the whole Job gets out in the betting
FOR his. That's the way II was that winter
ANYHOW. They began to double-reef my stack
The first day | blew in from this side. where
Id had the season Of my life. and hadn't
been frittering with EN- for more than two
months out there before II began 10 look 10
me- like n case OF tackling a Chink highlander
for A Job on his Napa county truck ranch.
one raw morning for the matter Of that
every morning is raw in Frisco when my
pyramid was Town TO three yellow disks. two
OF en- with twenty and the other with the
tan stamp. | went over to the track, resolved
upon garroting the first trainer | met and max
ing him tell me the name and address OF a
horse that was going to win. The first trainer
met was a little sawed-of wealen-face that
used to ride 'em through the snow on the out
laws back this way. file had a string OF four
or five fair ones. with which he frequently
got the bum ends Of the purses and occasionally
the main money. knew him pretty well.
didn't exactly neck him. but told him
inst couldn't see the long walk back to the
Atlantic seaboard and that II something wasn't
doing pretty soon thers'd be an Increase OF
one in the prison census Of San Quentin. for
meditated sticking up the Mayor in The City
Hall, or building a tunnel under the safe in
the CiT HOUSE, or something like that, He
kent on chewing his straw. did this weazen-
faced ex-iock, and then he said
Say, die ever see that camel ! got?
" Yes said |, the whole string Of 'em. |
wouldn't give YOU the sweat-band in my last
years straw hat for the bunch
" gIess you amt seen this one, said he.
sui eating hay He's a hump-back with four
~stonachs but it, going 10 happen, and
guess IN ,e' Won in for tho sake OF the old
day, n, tho Gut know YOU wont split it,
Then he took me- around to his barn and
showed nae the thing 1t looked like a eros,
be,N cen a dromedary and a Mexican burro.
II vas a Califorma-bred mutt that had never
raced Il had gone wrong IA a two-year-old
before being sent to the pump. and II was still
waiting for a sight OF the nag az a three-year-
old
This il IT, said the weszen-face. and I sat
down on a bale of hay and howled ssrdonically
a. him
"To-morrow's the day said my friend
the ey-iock and trainer. First race, which
Is for maiden three-year-olds, There'll be abuu,
fifteen in, and this Onell he write-yonr-own
ticket Put what YOU got left down straight
no place or show. It's plum preserves. and
I'm giving You a real ptISh-up BY letting Won
in The camel , been saved for this, and he's
u racehorse Get out, now, | M busy
Something in the little chaps tone struck
ne lie was dead in earnest, and knew that
he never fooled himself. I'D known him for
a good many years, and he'd always told me-
right when he skates h. was riding or training
were TO the good and meant. and when they
wouldn't do.
Camel or no camel SAYS | 20 myself, after
had a chance. TO frame his talk mp, IN just
let en- run for the books to-day, and take some
o that with what we got LETT tomorrow
And did But the rAlble was, | got wOOZed
upsome before | left for III" track on the after
noon the camel was going to get hi first peek
a. the starter, Met IN army officer M the
Palace that I'd known when We were kids back
his way. md We shot ten or fifteen in ~ II all
the vet rmpOrllms were going OUT of business
before noon Then | had a few more on the
way 10 the track and after ] got there, BIT |
was -till to the good as far ~ having a clear
Id was concerned when the states went up
for the first race. saw my friend The trainer
and eN,IoCk leaning over the paddock fence"
~ right said he out OF q corner Of his
mouth Go as far "a You like
so SPINS over to The first book in the line.
and seeS that the camel Is nj 40 20 / I'd done
BUSINESS with that boOkie often before. |
passed him one ~ the $50 chips, and. naming
The camel told him | wanted that one straight.
Another on" Of your hot things said the
BOOB p. handing me- the grin along with the
tcEet calling for $50 to $40
Then ] had another pint, and went into the
sand 10 watch he race. II locke to me like
thal camel just winked al the Judges a. he
Walked h- didn't run, he walked under the
Nr" lwontv lengths 10 the good
Here's looking at Broadway six DAYS from
IN" ticket wasn't there. did the panic hunt
through al! NV clothes, The ticket was gone
hustled down 10 the betting ring, and was
tr-t IN my bookip's line.
Say ! sad to him, lost my eood-thing
toN"', bu' Won remembe the bet don't yOu''
y, spoke ! got a pipe AT the pay-oN sheet.
and nv ssMn TO so bet was The only one the sheet
contained m the camel.
The boohir looked me over a. II 7 belonged
t.. bunch of Malay boomerang Ihrowers on a
MIDWAY
VIVA, sood-thing ticket'' said he. Who