Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
LED -ASTRAY
BY THE "DREAM DOPE"

'rThey gave me 60 to 1 against him, and
staked me to slow, sardonic smiles when
they accepted my spinach.
That dream jumper just went over the
sticks like a snowbird hopping icy hedges.
He stood up the whole journey. and was
just moping, ten good open lengths In front,
at the finish.
of having various sordid bookmaking per-
sons contribute $2135 toward my wen-be-
Ing, when the ring announcer looking all
flushed and het up with happiness, sped
into the ring and cheerfuily announced that
my horse had been disqualified for going
inside two Of the course flags and therefore
not covering the full distance. little cir
cumstance which had escaped my observa-
ton In my RANT Joy.
yep. the dream had been all right only
1t hadn't said anything about flags.
4 Il
"The last dream that had before de-
veloping chilblains as to the trance dope
had to do with a great and noted horse.
."I dreamed that saw bunch OF regular
army soldiers drilling on a city square.
When I awoke with start and hoped up
to nail a dyspepsia tablet. the word of
the leader of the drilling outfit. Forward
was hunMning in my ears like the buzz
Of a blizzard wind through clog of troll
ley wires.
This couldn't mean anything else than
that Advance Guard was going to just
breeze in the long distance In which he
was to run on the next day.
$50, on the next day, I took Advance
Guard for a wad at the close-hauled favor
ties price.
And for the first and only time in his
life Advance Guard backed up In the stretch
and allowed firkin Of cottage curd named
Warranted to slide along in front Of him
to the tape
y
.tThen and there, and all of a sudden, I
froze on the dream dope.
THE great white light broke upon me,
and l perceived that the dream gag was
getting me into the habit of accepting the
fringed tassels at the bottoms of my trons-
ers with sodden equanimity.
so, that's all set. A few months later
I was in New Orleans. dreamed one
that 1 saw pure white horse winning a
race all by himself al the track of the Cres-
cent City Jockey Club. l woke up laughing
for 1 knew that a pure white race morse,
plugsky called Elmer S., was going to race
at the track for his first time out on the
very next day.
'in addition to-ethe dream, for which I'd
have fallen with thud only few brief
months before, I saw about nineteen red
headed women around town that morning
and on my way to the. track.
when the bunch with the white Elmer
S. In it paraded to the post was all a-gur-
how far away 1 had got from that dream
business.
" Only few brief months ago. said to
myself, If anything bearing on or apper-
tanning to a white plug like that Elmer s.
had flashed through the back of my conk
while was pounding my ear, I'd have had
a temperature of 100 until I got chance
to joggle all Of my junk in on 1t. And
here 1 am now on the contrary, just a
laughing with ticket on the sure-enough
winner in my kick
Then they got away. and Elmer s., the
white one, taking dislike to the company
he found himself in, when the far turn
was reached. just picked up his doll rags
and came on home all alone, with all
of the 100 to 1 against him that you could
have shot biscuit at out Of a 16-inch gun.
"All of which sums up Into a few Of
the reasons why, when 1 hear the dream
boys valving out escaping steam about the
droskeys of dough they've hauled away
through somnambulistic selections, l feel
like stalking 'em to a hop-toi that hasn't
been blunted by overwork.'