Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
By Clarence L. Cullen.

l dream boys tanning INTO living HoiAcS -
| combustibfe air. observed the race fol-
| lower with the outstanding ears, makes
me think Of hop pills that are rolled lop-
| sided.
I'm from the foothills Of the Ozarks
when 1t comes to that dream thing. and
the Ozarks used to be in Missouri, didn't
| they?
There was time when I'd fall for
dream bunch like fat girl of the rear
end of bob-sled, but you've got to furnish
me with Exhibit A, and cross-section draw
ings and blue prints, nowadays
cat this stage of it. when hot one !:
waited to me In a dream. I can hardly
wait until I get out of bed before I drop
a copper on 1t that weighs as much as
cooking school fried cake.
Its got to be wild night on the Elk
moor Downs when your little playmate
Sunlocks lets a dream fantasy tease him
into traipseing to it with honest-MoQui
money, and trust you are taking this from
me.
so nudgey on the dream thing that I'd
eat hot mince pie and Camembert just be-
fore turning in, so that I'd be sure to de-
velop a dream bunch for the bright and
gladstone morrow.
When I'd wake up I'd act as my own
dream dragoman, interpreting them all my
self, and never letting anybody else in for
lear tney q Damage the price.
NJ
THAT was the stingiest year I ever ex-
perenced.
Zone night dreamed that saw a black
grasshopper as big as a shepherdess hat
being chased over an asphodel lawn by an
even dozen-I counted 'em while dreaming
Of brown grasshoppers.
But that black grasshopper in the dream,
had cnt off md
ones never got near enough to him to spit
tobacco juice on him. BY his way of going
it looked as If that black one -couAd just
go anyway and hide from the kind of mutt
grasshoppers that pursued him.
"Um-huh, ye-eh. 1t looked pretty soft to
me when 1 ran over the entries the next
| morning and saw that the fourth race COM
prised field of thirteen starters, with only
| one in the lot black. The other twelve
of the lot were all browns of different
| shades-real browns, and bays and chest
nuts and SO on. - -.
THE black one in the bunch doped, on
his record. to be so to 1 shot This was
right here in little old Washington, by the
way. l went to hook plant and stuck
| my clock in for $50, and to the $50 l added
| the $50 slip that l was carrying around
| under the sweat-band of my hat for room
| rent.
when 1 got to the track I took mine
| out in masticating sailed peanuts until the
| fourth race. the one in which the black
| ba besky of the slumber bunch was to tow
| rope EN-.
"When the states were hoisted. the black
one was the only 100 to 1 thingovitch In
| the lot. l got my $50 down on him in saw
buck lots at that figure, and then leaned
against the rail to watch the start right in
| front of the stand.
THAT black grasshopper ran away from
them all and hid all right. He was a
| hundred yards in front Of them all before
| they anew what was coming of.
Fact is, they hadn't started at all.
He was the only one to start that time.
| He was in such hurry to bring the kale
home to dad that he busted through the
barrier as soon as they lined up in front
of the webbing.
HE probably thought he was running in
a walkover in the Me Only Stakes.
'He chuckled his boy at the first turn,
| hoped the infield fence, went the full
| steeplechase course. twice around, tagging
| the jumps, and then he gamboled over the
high fence inclosing the grounds and took
| to the vedt.
| They got him about three weeks later,
1 believe up around Cumberland or some
| where near the headwaters of the Potomac,
| where they found him feeding on acorns
and wild berries, and slick and sassy as a
circus Shetland.
you needn't inquire of me how I got
away from Washington when the meet
| ing broke UP there. because l don't be-
lieve in dragging in this dirge music when
there's a nicket-in-the-slot orchestra doing
Coax Me Into Being Glad in the next
| room.
|
But that didn't take the kink out of my
| dream dope.
Il knew that the black grasshopper would
have connected If he'd got away on a line.
| and 1 knew, too. that If the race had been
at 164 miles. the distance between WASH
| ington and Cumberland. the black would
have won by four days.
| "So-the next time 1 was able to get
bunk to crawl into. and that was some
| those dream things.
"It slipped along one night while the
Aqueduct meeting was on. l dreamed that
| I saw a bright blue horse spinning along
| the stretch thirty lengths to the nice, and
| laughing just fit to kill. The blue horse
was SO much doubled UP with the laughs
that he swerved and Zig-zagged all over
! the track in the last sixteenth, but he
| got home in front by as far as from here
| to the nearest ciStern.
| "The next morning. when I came to,
lay in bed for quite while trying to in
| terpret that one. 1t didn't look like a
legitimate coin accommodating bunch to me,
| for who ever heard of a blue horse?
| $50 1 was on the point of passing that
! slumber suggestion along when picked
up the paper at breakfast to see what was
going to run that day..
True Blue and Blueaway were slated to
| go in the first race.
|
| hey?' / gurged to myself when l saw
those two names. and both of them swell
| horses.
| But the two Of them with the blue twist
| to their names put me on the branch.
was there with the bank roll for either
! of them. but. both of 'em being blue, l
couldn't pick which one to go to.
II was hoping on the way to the track
| that one the other Of them would be
| scratched, leaving me only one choice Of
| a blue horse to swing to with the hull $40
but when 1 got to the grounds the jockeys
names were already up and both of the
| blue ones were to go.
For long time leaned against a ring
stanchion, rasslng. with that double dream
| bunch
II liked True Blue. He was. the even
money favorite. He figured to walk. 1
| had dreamed of bright blue horse, and
| bright blue was True Blue.
II had seen Blueaway warm up, and he
looked seedy and tucked up. He had run
last in his last race. The track was light
ming fast and Blueaway was best in the
mud.
II pitched up nickel. If it came down
heads it was to be True Blue: tails, Blue
| away. Heads it was.
81 used so much interference in jumping
for the nearest book still laying evens
i Trno hot tUo MI al has