The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-12-29
CHEERING REMiN:Sck OF
soYHooD DAYS.
Story That Lifted Gloom from the
BroWs Of Overwhelmed Bust.
ness Men-Retrospeetion a.
4 Cure for the Blues.

Drows Of Overwhelmed Bust.
ness Men-Retrospection a.
Cure for the Blues.
Ever stop to think of your boyhood
days?
Nothing like 1t to drive away the
blues.
The other day group OF business
men. whose cares are not the hghtest.
we're seated about a restaurant table
grabbing a hurryup lunch. Every man,
Of them was grouchy. Just then the
door opened, and another, just as busy,
as far as results go, but never acting
as though he had care on earth.
came in.
He sat down and everyone turned
with a half-scowl.
They were feeling blue, and did not
want anyone to convince them that
some Of it was imaginary.
ibid I ever tell you about the time
I raced the old mans driving mare
against timer" asked the CHEEKY indi'
vidual.
No one spoke.
swell. did," he said. 1.-THE old man
and the mother had gone away on
visit. Dad had a mare which he was
proud of, and no one touched 1t. USED
to watch the hired man when he
hitched her up, like a hawk. Well,
on the day that they went away, got
restless. ! had pony, but it wasn't
fast enough. So what did l do but get
that mare out and put her into
sulky-"
The other men were listening now
"Put her into sulky when the hired
man was away, and down I goes to
stretch Of road near the railroad track.
Say, but hit up a pace, hanging onto
the lines for dear life.
when I got home had half the
boys in the neighborhood running
across the fields to meet me, and we
put her in the barn. I got busy and
wiped her off, and the hired man
never tumb1ed.
"Next day, by agreement, got her
out, and half the town, the boy part
of it. was there. drove her down the
stretch the proudest mortal in the uni
verse. and the other boys looking on
"Next day was Saturday. The folks
were coming home Wednesday and
was getting down fine as driver, and
the mare was falling off a little In
flesh, but the hired man wasn't wise
saturday who should come around
but the son of man down the pike
who had another driving mare. Father
and he had always quarreled about the
nags, but beyond going down the roac
side by side, each one seeing that NJ
wasn't beat, they never came together
Result was that kid and I mat ched the
o horses for race on Tuesday.
II went nome and rubbed that mare
; down, going over her legs like regular
I, Jockeys and wipers do, and never sait
i, a word to the hired man. On Monda.
I took the mare out for the las
warming up heat, and all the boys II
Town were there. The other kid wa
, afraid to take out his horse except TO
+, the race.
1--WE went down to the head of tn
stretch, and as turned to go alon
' came that railroad train. The mar
= vent down the road, scared, and wa
z cerched upon the seat hanging on.
wire fence on the side of the road KEEP
the mare from boiling.
1T looked like spill for me, bu
g | hung on like grim death.
:. Near the place where the roa
/. turned away from the track 1t ra
K close and as we neared that l turne
9 toward the cars, expecting to cras
i into the end of the train"
:. He stopped.
I Every man sat up
t How did you ever get out of tn
8 hospital, if you went into the train?
q asked one.
81 didn't" said the CHEEKY one, "b,
(. say, dad and mother were riding
y the last coach and looking right {
l, mel"
u Tanned your hide, reckon" sal
quiet listner.
It "Well, did he!" said the CHEEKY on
n "But he made me drive that race. Sal
y he couldn't afford to have the otht
man think he would allow mis- boy
d be bluffed.
1t And won by neck"
8 The party broke up.
9 Every man of them was smiling ar
,. things looked brighter, like the 81
had come from out under cloud.