Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-03-15
Impressions Made on Mind in
Sleep Not Always
Helpful.
WHAT HAPPENED ONE
lad a Nudge" a Certain Racer Wa.
Sure Thing" but Judges Per
sisted in Claim That FIRST
Horse Under Wire Won.
From the washington Evening Star

Somebody asked him If the ,oase OF
his poor luck had been his playing OF
what IS known as the Iream dope
Not this season WIS his reply. I'm
from the foothills Of Kansas City when
1T comes to piayins The dream stuff.
and you know what state Kansas city
is in. There used To be u time when
Ia fall for a drcam hunch like "A roly-
poly girl out of a swing. bat now
you've got to furnish ne WIKI exhibit
Il, accompanied by cross section dirtw-
ings and Diue prints ana with the VIC
ucltc attached.
when a hot one is waited TO me uow
a-nishtS ia a dream. ! can hardly wait
till get out OF bed before | drop a
copper ON II that weighs more than a
cooking school fried cake. It's got 20
be a wild night on the EXmoor Downs
when your little hammock mate fright
eyes lets a %phantasy tease him into
traipscinS to IT with honest Navajo
money. 1 was so edgey on the dream
kind during one skinny year that III
eat hot mince pie n i;oquefort just
before turning III SO that I'd be sure TO
develop a dream hunch during the
night Tor the bright ard gladstone NOR
row. When Id wake up I'd act as my
own dream Interpreter. uniaveiing them
an myself, and never by any chance
letting anybody else in Tor fear they'd
damage the price.
That was the stinglest year eyer
experienced. | dreamed one night that
| saw u black butterfly rs big us a leg
horn hat being chased over the lea by
AN even dozen-l counted EN- While
dreaming of broWn butterflies. But.
IN the dream, that black butterfly had
got away ON his toes. so 10 speak, and
The brown chascrS never got near
enough to hin To tag him, BY his way
of going he looked like he could Just
II. away and hide from those that were
pursuing him. When | ram over the en-
tries the next morning IT looked pretty
soft to me when l observed that the
fourth field comprised a field of thir-
teen starters, with only one OF them in
the lot Il black horse. The other dozen
were all browns of different shades
real browns, bays, ~chestnuts. and so on.
The II black horse in the bunch fig
uied. on his record, TO be n 30 to
chance. l wasn't there with the
markings of IA bet, so l stepped down to
the nearest Sign of the Doges and got
$40 on my clock.
out at the track l look mine out in
m%asticating salted peanuts until the
fourth race. the race in which the
black babesky of the slumber hunch
was to towrope EN-. When the states
were hoisted the black one was the
only loo to 1 thing in the bet. / got
my $50 down on him In sawbuck lots
at that figure, and then leaned against
the rail to watch the start. right in
front of the stand The black butter
fly ran away from them all and hid. all
right. He was 100 yards in front of
them all before they knew what was
coming off. tact is, the others hadn't
started at all.
He WAS the only n to start. He
was in such Il hurry that he bursted
through the barrier as soon MS they
lined up in front of the webbing. He
probably thought he was to run in a
ak ever in the Me Only stakes. He
tossed his boy at the first turn. hoped
the infleld fence. went the full steep!e-
chase course twice around. tagging the
jumps, and then he gamboled over the
high fence inclosing the ground and
took for the veldt. They got him about
three weeks later up aroun Troy or
somewhere near the headwaters of the
Hudson. where they found him feed
ing on acorns mt wild berries and
slick as a circus Shetland.
But that didn't take all OF the curl
out of my dream dope. 1 knew that
the black would have connected IL he'd
l knew. too. that II the race had been
bout 1873 miles. or the distance be-
tween Long Island n Albany. the
black would have won by about three
days. So 1 just waited for another
d, dream.
1T came along. all right. N night. 1
dreamed hat I saw a bright mazarine
blue horse spinning along the stretch.
about forty lengths in front and laugh
ing just At to kill. The blue horse was
so much doubled up with the laughs
that he swerved and zigzagged all over
the track In the last sixteenth. hut he
got home In front by as far as from
here to BladensburE. When I came to
next morning I lay In bed quite a while
trying to interpret that one 1t didn't
look like Il legitimate cold a~ggregating
hunch to me. for who ever heard of a
blue horse? l was on the point OF
passing up that slumber suggestion
when | picked up the paper at break
fast TO take "a look at the entries for
that day.
True Blue and Blueaway were slat-
ed to go in the first race.
".Oh, I guess I'm the punk dream
list. hey?' said l to myself then, when
l saw those two names. and both of
them swell horses.
But the presence in the race OF the two
OF them with tho blue twist to their names
put me out on the limb. l was there with
the bank wad to play either OF them. but
both of 'em being blue. / couldn't pick out
which one to go to. l was hoping, on my
way to the track. that one Of them would
be scratched, leaving me only one choice
Of a blue horse to swing to with the huh
SIS. hut when 1. got to the grounds the
Jockeys names were already up. and both
of the blue ones were to. 20.
For a long time l leaned up against a
ring stanchion. wrestling with that double
dream bunch. / liked True Blue. He was
the favorite. He figured to
wax In. I had dreamed of a bright blue
horse. and bright blue was True Blue. !
had seen Blueway warm UP. and he ookcd
secdy and over-raced to me. In his last
previous race he had trailed his field. The
track was fast. and. while Blucaway was
a mudder d!stinctively. True Blue was
best in a fast track.
8 / tossed up a dime. If 1t came down
heads It was to be True Blue: tails. Blue
away. Heads 1t was.
II uanyhcd 1t SO much In jumping for
the nearest book laying even money
against True Blue that q coupls of 'Pinks'
were for pinching me and slamm.ng me in
the track cooler. hut I begged OF and got
the - down on my pick Of the doub:l
dream hunch.
4 .Tsue Blue va left At the post. Blue.