Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-22

ers. out OF the same dam, that looked 80
much alike that they could hardly be told
apart. He entered one of them for a mile
race one day, and then got hold of a
chunky Mick OF riding boy who Could
hold on for a week without falling off from
WEAKNESS. lot of the velocity tea was
inserted into the system of the horse be-
fore he sailed to the post, and one of the
ingredients in the Juice was purposely cal
culated to make him crazy. The horse was
held at to 8. the favorite's price, at post
time. But he never got to the post. AS
soon as the paddock gate bars were raised
and the horse got out onto the track he
took the bit in his teeth and the way he
did run and run and run around that track
for about twenty-five minutes was a mortal
sin and shame. The boy--it looked to the
bunch--couldn't do airy a thing with him.
The horse Just Hoped and loped and loped
and the boy seemed to be Just hanging on
for dear life, though the truth was that
after going seven miles, when the horse
had begun to weary and was about ready
to pull up, the boy furtively kicked him out
so as to make him complete the eighth cir
cult of the track in order that he might
flag past the stand with a perfect dog
tired look.
1.-THE boy steered the still running horse
into the paddock at the finish of this eighth
circuit of the track, and the horse, as If
doing 1t himself, made for his own barn.
In the meantime the owner of the 'runa-
way horse was mounting the judges stand
He'd fixed the judges and he knew it 'ud
be all right.
He told the Judges that he'd like to have
permission to withdraw his horse from the
race, in view of the long distance the ami
NAL had run away,
No, sir. you cannot withdraw him.?
Numbered one of the judges, who was in
on 1t for keeps. You will have to race
your horse. sir. even if he drops dead. There
is something behind the conduct of your
animal, sir, but no matter about that race
him you must and shall, and that's all
there is to It, whereupon the moral Judge
staked the owner to a deep, crafty wink
and the owner climbed down, looking
cheap-ye-eh, looking real cheap
In the meantime, the horse that had run
the eight times around the track had got
around behind his own barn. as II of his
own motion though he'd been carefully
steered there by his boy. Behind that barn
the half-brother of the runaway was wait
ing, all saddled and bridled and ready for
the race of his lie, with the hop in him.
too. He was a better horse than his runa-
way brother, at that, and figured to beat
the held, waiting at the post, by a block
The boy who'd been riding the runaway
just leaped off and got on board the fresh
half-brother. Soap suds had been dashed
all over this fresh half.brother's sides to
give him that lathefy and foamy look. and
tie hop in him made him breathe hard. In
the meantime the bookies had histed the
price against the runaway horse that had
gone eight times around the track from
8 to to 30 and even 100 to l. and the
people In on it had instructed their COM
mlssioners at the western poolrooms to
wait for this line of betting Then the
fresh half-brother, few minutes after the
runaway's disappearance in the paddock,
emerged, went to the post, got by without
anybody remarking anything and. to the
immense surprise of the Whole bunch-ex-
cept the insiders-copped ths race in
gallop.
"Oh. l guess they didn't need and get
the change or nothin' at old Iron Hill!'
.. L. G.