Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-28
DREAMS RESULT;
LONG SHOT WINS
SUPERSTITION BEATS PONIES
At EMERYVlLLE
Man slumbcrs and Sees Equine Drag
ainq Lawn Mower-Unwlttlnq
Tells Of Good Thing to
Friend

Around the cigar stands and hand
book precincts OF the city they are
telling of man who dashed along
Spring street Saturday morning with
two fve-dollar bills which ho bet on
horse seen IN dream, The man told
everybody about It and when they
laughed stuck with his dream story,
Here is the true tale;
Lying I'm slumber along toward Sat-
urday morning last II certain man In
certain Los Angeles downtown hotel
saw procession of equines pranclng
along Spring street. In tho rear was
an animal which, strange to say, was
dragging a lawn mower.
This seemed especially strange to the
man. especially In view OF the fact that
beyond q possible bit of green sprout-
ing under the poiceman's feet there is
very little verbiage along the main
highway Of this town.
Soon the man awol5e and as the day
light filtered through his window the
dream came back to him. Horses might
be all right, but what business did that
lawn mower have to be in the dream?
Meets Wise Friend
Arising he glanced into the mirror.
Scarcely a vestige of beard was in
sight. He had been out among 'em
the night before and remembered q
nine days under shave taken early in
the evening. No, BARRIERS would not be
useful to him just then.
The man went to breakfast. There
he met q friend. The friend was a
model of perfection with single ex-
ception. He f1irted with the ponies
The man of the dream had gambled
only once during his whole life, and
that when he took a ten-cent chance
on a japanese tray at q bazaar for
some people who were homeless. He
had experienced many a twinge of con-
science for this rash action, but was
living it down gradually
After administering the usual morn
ing lecture regarding the evils of horse
racing and gambling in general the
man of the dream awakened his COM
panion by starting the vision tale.
The bad gambler had lost two dol
lars the day previous and was consol-
ing himself with inward condemnation
of the starter who was entirely re-
sponsible.
The plunger came to when the dream
man finished up with But I cant fig
ure why that horse had a lawn mower
hooked on behind"
Like a Comanche the inhabitant of
copeland sprang from the chair, turned
MS eggs over OH llle lOOl, deluSctl bllG
waiter with two cups of coffee and
flew through the door.
Hes in the fifth race at was
what mingled with coffee and eggs.
DemoIishes Breakfast
CONSERVATION depicted on his face,
the dream man watched his track
friend hasten to a cigar stand across
the street, flash two bills and come
running back.
say, what did you get? And I
didn't give him chance-I took clos
ing odds-5O to l, 40 anyhow Played
him straight and show"
Drawing up his chair and rubbing
fragments of mush from his clothes
the dream man brought his fist down
on the table with a crash that caused
the waiter to waste another order of
ham and"
Nov what do you mean by all
this? What are you talking about? Do
you know you've ruined a pair of
trousers for me and set up a bill for
broken dishes? Been betting on an
other horse, / suppose
The sinner fell back in his chair and
gasped. His eyes stared from their
sockets and the waiter glanced anxious
| ly at a passing policeman.
"You-don- n-mean-no-oh no-you
| don'-tell me-sitting at game like
that Waiter just q drop of water
An 1 got him at So
The dream man grabbed his hat an
grily, tried to pull his coat over a damp
place and proceeded to make exit.
The dope person was coming to and
set forth feeble protest.
"Wait-will you-jus'-a fiver-this-
the only time. He's in the fifth race at
Emery"
But the dream man was gone.
That evening he heard the neWsboys
calling. He had often heard their noise,
but n familiar something that he
couldn't get away from was in the air.
The man chose a g2udy colored sheet
and saw something that caused a far
away look to come into his eyes.
"Grasscutter wins at 30 to l." Yes.
that's what the paper said.