The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-08

cation an got it TO prospering. ii
was the whole works. I found out
ran the church, taught the parochia
| school, instructed the sodalities, RAJ
the Sunday school, buried the dead
married the willing, ch!istened the nev
ones, and all on an income that woult
not have kept some Jockeys l know II
cigarettes for a week.
THE next morning, with bing ant
( a rattle, l started to work on Bricky
/ four-legged bequest. Tackled him Oh
| to my string and lab5red with him.
THE fat fell away from him in nc
| time, and he was a hog for work. III
about three weeks he was in shape tc
show me something on the easy side
He did it right willingly. at that
passed me up a mile in 1850 without any
distress.
81 gave him his daily speeding then
for another couple of weeks, and al
the end of that time he breezed me
the mile in las without being let down
by the heavy boy on his back. Nnen
he got through doing that l gave him
slap OH the nigh haunch, and, says
to him:
Bud, I'm going to run you to help
out the square and white old man that
buried your pal Bricky, and 1 want
you to behave. How about it?'
The old maiden blinked his eyes
rapidly and tossed his head and paved
the ground. and he COUNT have said
it any palmer in words that he was
going to make the dog -gondest stab ne
knew how.
II had to wait another week before I
had a chance TO stuff him into d field
made up of a dozen 4-year-old maid
ems.
couple of days before the race 1
slipped over to the old priests cottass.
Found him pacing UP and down in ms
ridiculously tiny garden beside his cot
tage, in his cassock, and reading his
breviary.
Ever have the horse bug very hard.
father?' l asked him, and when | ex-
planned what that meant he smiled and
called me limb of darkness.
Because l went on, one of your
stable is going to hunt for the coin day
all dates off on that afternoon and
come over to the track and watch him
cop
Had to get out the glossary to
straighten that out for the good old
man, too. Well. he was enormously
pleased to hear that l had taken
Brickys horse up and got him keyed
up for race with his own class.
I thought some of running him in
your name, father 1 went on, just to
get rise out of him, for I'd never had
such an idea, but
I'm glad you didn't do that. my
son. he broke in, alarmed 1T might
be misunderstood and
"'WeIl. when I was in Ireland q few
y ears ago. I broke in on him. it
seemed to me as if half the steeple-
chase horses I saw perform belonged
to men of your faith and cloth. 1t was
Father This's lepper here and Father
That's chaser there
oh. know that. my son. said the
Did priest, a twinkle in his eye. In
fact. when / was a young man back in
he ould country, I meself knew the leg
If a horse as we'll as the-but tush,
It's been many the year since I al !
owed meself to participate in such |
rivolity.'
Well said. we want you to be on
he stand, anyhow. day after tomorrow. |
coming. amt your
81 could see the hankering in the !
good old mans eye to see a race. 1t |
lad probably been forty years since |
led seen a bunch of 'em coming into
he stretch-way back yonder in the
mist of the flown years when he was d
-oung fellow in ireland.
L can't see any evil in it, he re-
lied. after long pause. AS a locker
n. but no participant ''e'-' --9
Z" Your horse is going to win. father,
said then, and I felt confident of it al
hat. 'Er-uh-the boys are kind o
alking of chipping in-each man just
little bit, you Understanding get
ing down bet for you, just for the
axe of sentiment
That must not be, said the old
riest, earnestly. You must stop that
the horse earns anything by his
WI effort. we'll and good, and may ne
un and win for the glory of God. But
o gambling in my name. 1 depend
pom you to stop that
'All the same, about a. dozen of the
'ainers around the grounds quietly
hipped in enough to make up a S100
citing bundle and passed it over TO
lie. I'd told 'em what a hard fight the
Id priest was having of it to keep
is flock together. and besides that, 1
assed them the straight word that the
adge maiden that had belonged to the
cad Bricky was going to connect.
"On the day of the race I escorted
ne old priest over to the track, and
ound him a seat away up on the top
own and saddled the horse, for he was
} so in the first race.
Il put the jockey up and gave him
is instructions, and then I returned
, tho grandstand to join the priest.
had got the 800 down on his horse
so to /.
at was mile race and the field
.arted directly opposite the stand,
cross the field. When the barrier
aslled it stuck on one side, and nine
the twelve horses went off on a
Use break, the starter and the assist.
ut starter yelling at the boys with all
leir lungs.
But the whole nine went the en-
re route and fought the finish out to
lie wire, when they We're called back
orse wasn't among those nine, and
len | knew that he had only two
orses to beat, and these two, provi-
the worst of the entire lot.
" Well I said to the kindly old man
he looked tremendously ex-
ted-Tm mighty glad your horse
dn't get away with that fool bunch
d hate to have you lose $4,000 on
1ch a fiuke'
The old gentleman stared at me.
" Why said Land may I be for
ven for that bald lie-'the amount oe
le stakes in this race, you know.
his is the Missouri Industrial stakes
lat your horse is running in, and the
st horse home gets the five thousand
: his share. 1 thought you knew thae
! the time q:
Il got by with it all right. He neve.
ad the papers-didn't have time-aad
: didn't know a 4-year-old maiden ,
ice for NUTS from a drill for mus
ngs. ia
Il hadn't any sooner made the ex-
anAtinn to him than the non hnrl,nd | !.