The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03

ing everything on the programme of the event except the one he had picked to cop.
 When he came to the name of Cunard on the programme he just tossed back his head and laughed hard.
 ""Scuse me fir this mirth, fellers,' he gurgled to his gang of marks. But I can't help it, honest t Mag, l can't Gu nard hey? Wait till l git somebody to hold me. Cunard, hey? Flaw, haw, haw!
 ''One of the marks ventured to kick in with the remark that he'd heard that Cunard wasn't such bad sort of a 9 year-od.
 "I jes' can't help it, fellers-I can't help mirthin',' said the tout, paying no attention to the marks observation. Say, hasn't that old whiskerines from tn slope got his nerve with him t t'ink he can skate along here with camel crab and nail tn junk in hoss race like this is gon' t be? Ain't he? And l told him so meself this mornin'?'
 " You did?' said one of the tout's soft ies, impressed.
 Knew Cunard Had No Chance.
 That's what l did, said the tout. Not on'y that, but he comes troo hisself and says he knows Cunard ain't got no chanct, but he says he's ony goin' t run Cunard fir work an racn experience as long as he's got him entered, see? So you can cut out that lob. l seen him Soik by candlelight yistiddy mornin' an, he runs like a giraffe wit tn smok- CTS heart. So, y'see they's on'y one in it. and that s--' and he named the one that he was handing out for pipe.
 Well, old man Morris bright, youth ful eyes glowed when he heard the touts reel, and the grins fiickered over his face like the shadows over a vitagraph film. The stuff amused him so much that he followed the tour over the lawn for ten or fifteen minutes just for the fun of listening to him.
 Now there's no gainsaying the effect of the talk of even one busy tout when that talk is addressed exclusively to punches of holiday visitors at race track. One of the marks goes and tells all of his friends, also marks, that he has just heard a horseman that looked like he ought to know say so and so. and that talk always sticks and helps to make prices. Don't imagine that 1t won't even help to switch the wise ones when they hear it repeatedly and strongly.
 "A quarter of an hour before the big two-year-o race the word had sifted all over the Morris Park grounds that Green Morris didn't like Cunard. The rumor even hit the bookies' line, and the layers took the story as it reached  the Morris colt
 Morris and the people close to him got the cream of the price, which floated in some books as hign as 20 to l, and Nor rs and his crowd made the cleanup of their lives. for Cunard had the race at his mercy and took it with the greatest ease in the world.
 After Cunard's number went up old man Morris dug around and found the
 
 against betting ring stanchion. Morris reeled a hundred from one of his wads and slipped 1t to the tout, who took it handy enough, but with a natural ex- pression of engagement.
 That's money coming to you for ewo reasons son. explained old man Norris good-naturedly. Tn the first place you certainly did make the price against my colt, or helped to make 1t, and you ought to be rewarded for that In the second place, in an experience of nearly half century on the race tracks, have never met up with such an ornate and wholly gifted liar as you are, and take