The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06

"W>en the three jumping horses We're
parading to the post, Lucky Luke look
ed them over and inquired of one of his
friends the name of the horse leading
the procession.
That's the 1-to-4 baby that's going
to skate osn by a margin of four and
one-half days was the reply.
BET you q hundred he falls down.
said LUX
Apparently Sure Things Lost.
Done said the other. promptly.
But L hate to give you the worst of it.
so that | want to tell you that this
horse has never fallen Down in n race
in his whole racing career. and he's one
of the finest and safest jumpers on the
continent, and
BE you another hundred Luke in
terrupted, hat another of the NUTS
in the race, besides the f%avorite tina
you're Dragging about SO falls down,
leaving only one of EN- to finish
"'Oh. IN lay three hundred to your
hundred on that proposition was the
other man swift reply-he was a Wis
itor in New Orleans, and not familiar
with Luke's marvellous record for luck.
Anyhow, the bet sure did loo good to
him, seeing that there are mighty few
cases on record in ste~eplechasing in
which only one horse has FINISHED.
But that was one of the instances,
all right. The mighty favorite made a
bad bobble of it over the very first
hedge. and went down like n rocking
chair under a membe of the Fat Mems
club, and the second choice i'm the bet
ting. after leading by ten block for
most OF the remainder of the distance,
TOOK off short. too. at the very last hop
and turned a somersault. chucking his
boy about thirty feet. The outsider
strolled home all by himself.
Luke went to a ball game between u
couple of New Orleans militia m
AN outfit of infantry and u team of ca
valry boys. In the sixth inning the
score stood is to ? in favor of the ca
valrymen. This was just the kind of Il
situation thai Luke liked, and he got
bus.
say,' he said to the men with him,
I'm bet you fellows u hundred to two
hundred that the Infantry fellows win
the came.
Make it q little more, Luke they
all said to him, sos We can all have Il
little piece o. that. 1t looks good
"'Well,' said Luke, I'll bet you four
hundred to eight hundred. then, that
the infantry fellows win out
They took thai like carp fighting for
sn.elt bait. The bet hadn't been much
more than made before the cavalry
mems pitcher got hit in the eye with a
batted ball and had to be carried off
the field. The pitcher that the cavalry
men then put i'm vas a glass-armed
WARBLER with a bad case of Charley
to swat the cover off the ball.. They
rolled up nine runs in the seventh,
thirteen in the eighth and six i'll the
ninth. The caNalry1men only succeeded
in fattening their tally list by two or
three runs for the remaining innings.
On II I1ro iIYcf n NC A. fo,. yhc la ,,,t ,,.-
men-and for Lucky Luke.
Buying a Pearl.
Another time LUX was sta:ading in
front of the st. Charles hotel With Il
group of friends when a beetle-browed
mug. who looked like a lag just turned
loose, sidled up. and, producing a nice
looking article that looked like a pear
sheaped pearl. offered to sell it for a
ten dollar note. All of the men in the
group laughed-except Lucky Luke.
Game out of a package of lemon
drops they said, after taking a peek
at the thing hat looked like a pear
shaped pearl-all but Lucky Luke.
Luke dug a ten spot out of his kimono
sleeve and handed it to the l~ow-browed
mug and took the gaud.
They all called Long Shot Luke a
shining T.. u. Mark. and Ode and
strung him vastly.
I've got IA couple o. hundred that
says this thing is sure enough pearl
was the way he got back at them.
and one of them snapped this up like Il
log cabin dog Swapping at a soup bone.
"Ihey all went to Il jewelers. in the
next block. The ieweler who was known
to them all. whistled when he got a
flash at the thing that Luke a bought
Tor the ten-caSe note.
piece of goods or anything, said the
jeweler. Perfect pear-shaped. and
about as velvety u skin as ever l saw
on a pearl
Worth anything? Long Shot Luke
asked the dealer iii gems.
Well, III give YOU $4,000 for il.
spot cash, IL selling replied the
jeweler.
Luke wasn't selling. though. Feel
ing SUE a the pearl mad been
stolen, he advertised it in all the New
Orleans papers, without springing the
owner of the pearl, and then he gave If
to his wife.
Quick Action Here.
"!.ukc ami some of his friends were
taking lunch in tho Cafe de la Louis
in I.berville street, one afternoon.
when the water main in front of the
restaurant burst and the water gushed
through the pavement in Il high foun-
tain at the rate of o a thousand
gallons d minute. flooding the street.
h-oNC dalb iS COMPANIONS SAT .lI IhelI
table and watched the fountain for four
or five minutes. Then Luke pulled ont
his watch.
Lets get . little action out of
this. he suggested. IN bet a hun
drcd the wa.er'li be turned off inside OF
ten seconds
They all yelled for some of it at
once, but Long Shot Luke accepted the
of the man sitting nex1 to him.
Now said the maj with whom
Luke made the bet, his eye on the sec
ond hand of his watch. One-two-
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