Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-08-10
CHAPTER xvI-tContinued.)

CHAPTER 4Vl-(CO00nuod.)
Money!" Miss Leland asked the
question.
"Yas'm; good big one too,
ma'am! Hessays to me dat he heahs
I got influence oveh d. jocks an
do business. I asts him how an Me
'splains- Sometime he'd LAX to be
|suah q ce'taln hawss don win. l asts
why he dom III de jocks. He laffs an
says mostly he. does, but dere's cases
Wheah 1t won do fob him to be mix
led In a-tall. OATS wAeah I come in.
tCe'tain jocks visits NEIL can advise
me IL tain 90 dat lem Jocks would
do lax I tell dem. I answeh him yes.
IDen he gets down to cases.
Seems lax dere's hawss named
vivandiere dat he don't want to win.
But dat hawss's trainer can't be fixed
nor his jock neither. Leas'wise, dis
man can't fix dem. But he says he's
been snoopin roun' an he fms de
jock. what'n ride de hawss is in de
him dat.s So An he asts me II I
could fix 1t 80 dat jock, mex time he
comes to get his fohtune oil, will
Ipronise o ride dat hawss to lose. I
erins at him; dat littul Jock is about
de foolishest pusson dat visits me. I
say I guess dat's easy. An de man
gives me anodder piece Of change an
can tell him what's what.
.'well. dat littul jock comes to see
me in a day or two, n I begins to
tell him dat dere's misfohtune await
In him; I tells him dat de witches Is
afteh him an l don see no way to
stop dem from gfttin' him. He's
scayehed mos to death, but I cant
give him no comfoht. Leas'wise. not
dat day. An each time he comes -
scayehs him moh an mob, until fin'ly
de white mar tells me dat de hawss Is
Ito slant an wants to know IL I've fix
ed the jock fob keeps. I tells him to
come again mex day and I sends a
message to de little jock. tellin' him
it's, impohtant dat he comes to see
me.
Well. he ome an I reads the
crystal ball. an I has a lttul heh
II gifts him ali wohked up. Fin'ly I
tells him dat,de witches on his trial.
boun' to git him 'ceptin' he do one
ting. He asst quickly what dat is; he
boun' to do any ting to git dem
witches of his track. An I tells him
,,de witches say. he lon respect dent,
dem. an dat dey say de only way he
can prove he respects dem Is to do
somepin'. An de witches say, / tells
him, dat ting to- do, to prove he hol's
de right feelin's tohds dem. 10 to
make hisb hawss lose ,de.nex' race she
stahts in.
.1e gtts all worked UP oveh dat
an say he can't do It nohow. Don !
ellis him dat de witches has ohdehed
me to make him sufkeh II he don do
what dey say, n / can't do nothtn'
but mind dem. So Il tells him dat61
sofia fggeh Of him I'll prepayehed,
an' dat ! gotta stick pins in 1t 20 his
souln Ett de misehy an 90 plumb to
hen right away. AMI stahts stiekin,,
de ping II right den.
We'll. dat fetches him: he ain Got
much senee nohow. But 1eems lax he
don know how he can loseSdAt race
vidout his boss hnsin' put he done Il.
a-puppoA. Butidts yeah white mar
has 'SpIaineA dat TO me. He'sstoESfme
dat al de jock gotta do 10 whip de
hawss tohds de end OF de ace and
dat dat hawss ain sotn' stand foh y.
An I talls de jock AT IN. he prom.
Day gbefoh yest'day. Dat night do
white nan sends me hund,eds dol
Ilshs. But, Niss Ieland, nAa'Aan, I
idiAn,t know dat II Was yoAh hAwSs.
Ain' fohgot%NhA yoh done 1oh me
an Dc second I hnd6 out a hAw0 a
, y,:.s., IN sssn, !sla y ! ., IS
4nxi0us foh notfin.. 70 happen. ne
Went bnss~ssAnt I'm obliged 70 yohsH
s1yoh don sey snothfn' a-taal,s
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didn't answer her; looked ~ the
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