The Washington times., 1901-12-15
SORRY SHE BOUGHT
AND SORRY SHE SOLD.
AWASHINGTON WOMAN AT RACES.
Got n Ticket on 90 to 1 shot. But
Didn't Like the Name-soId Her
Ticket 10 Gather BIII' Daily
and the Horse Won.

IF ever mortal being felt like a-er--
felt foolish" said the good looking young
woman on the green car to her compan-
ion, then l did one afternoon during the
races. party Of about a dozen Of us
married folks went, and while our hus-
bands were down in the bookmakers' ring
losing their money we women shivered in
the grandstand and played 'choosin's.
That is, we did during the betting on the
| first race.
Then we decided to do something to
keep US warm, and so we made up our
minds to do a little betting too. We
made up pool on the second race. There
were ever so many horses in that race.
and there we're only seven in our party.
but we picked out the Il st seven on the
list, wrote their names on slips OF paper,
! drew. and then We each put in a dollar
don't you ever breathe a word OF It as
long as YOU live, or | shall be ruined
But We dil-we each put in n dollar
Dreadful. wasn't II?
Objected to the Nnme.
"Weil, ! drew the name Of an Old thing
named svamplands-s name. 1t was
crying. so it was -Swamplands.
"Thc arrangement we made was that we
should each bet a dollar on the horse
whose name We drew, and the one that
picked the right one-the winner. you
know-should also get the s. OF which the
pool was composed. All OF the others had
horses with such pretty names, anu mine
was the only one with horrid name
Swampmnds,
"Wcu. | am afraid that l was rather
peevish over having drawn such an awful
Is named horse. ! asked them il they
wouldn't let me take the eighth horse on
the list. but they wouldn't. the mean
things. and there I was with slip con-
tanning that horrld Swampland's name,
and the worst Of il was that when the
man came around TO take the bets had,
according TO agreement to bet dollar on
the old thing. Mercy on us, but hated
to give that dollar up on such hopeless
ly named animal'
Glad to Sell Her Chance.
81 lust don't care one bit, 1 said to
one Of the girls when the bugle blew for
the horses to come out and run; I don't
think it's fair that they wouldn't let me
pick horse with a nicer name than that
Now. sitting right behind me. there
was a rough looking but kindly faced man
he vas lame, as | noticed when he came
IN the steps-wh0 bad been looking on
rs tLcr amusedly at our betting proceed
ittss lie heard me complaining about
that Swamplands name, and ne leaned
over and said;
LADY. If you don't like that name I'll
lust buy your interest in the horse-giye
you s. for it.
well he was elderly. you know, and
| was just too glad for anything to get
out of the necessity Of being compelled to
see my horse beaten by all the o:her
horses, and so l said that I'd be ,nuch
obliged if he would just buy out my IL er-
est in horse with a name like that.
And Swnmpiands Won.
"And so, In a very nice, good-natured
way. he handed me 81 bill and told me
that he assumed the bet.
The reason I'm doing this. lady, he
explained then. is that Swamplands is
my horse. and wouldn't like to see him
disappoint you. Ny name Is DAILY
Father Bill" DAILY they call me-
II had often heard my husband speak
of him, and / thanked him again. but
felt very cheap for having spoken so Of
his horse.
But l didn't feel half so cheap as |
did when Swamplands won the race, and
he was 80 to 1-sixty dollars for one dol
lar. you know, and l had Just given that
chance away! think it was mean for
that old Father BIZ Daily to take advan-
tage of woman thai way. don't you?'