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And of course him an' me, we hed bits o' conversation at times, 'cause he come to t' house reg'lar and sometimes o' week-nights an' all. An' he tell'd me 'at he'd had a deal o' experience i' racin' matters whether it were true or not, I couldn't say, but " "True enough!" said Eldrick. "He had."
Green; but the old lady was busily pleating the hem of her apron and then smoothing it out again. Aunt Melissa rocked, and went on: "I says to myself: 'Here they let Kelup carry on the farm at the halves, an' go racin' an' trottin' from the other place over here day in an' day out.
"At my age!" she repeated. "Humph! I ain't so much older than some folks in this kitchen, nor in the rest of the house, either. What do you mean by silly?" "I mean I mean well, I mean don't you get to joinin' lodges and readin' papers and racin' out every night in the week to somethin' or other. It ain't worth while. It's silly just silly." "Oh, is it! Well, other women do it.
"Yes, jest about like that," sez I. "Do you know what them mountains are made of? They're jest about as solid as your idees." "Well, I might build it on the other side of Surf Avenue, nigh that long line of dashin' horses Serenus depicters, that go racin' and cavortin' round and round, bearin' the gay and happy Hilariors on their backs."
At last I opens up on the Rainbow deal, 'n' I tries all I know to get him goin' I sure slips him some warm conversation. "'You heard what Brown said of Macbeth! he says. 'Why are you so certain this Rainbow can beat him in a steeplechase? "'Why, listen, man! I says. 'This Rainbow is the best ever. He can beat any brush-topper now racin' if the handicapper don't overload him.
Zelotes, "he 'ain't no business racin' out of gates that way, and his folks hadn't ought to let a boy no older than that out alone of nights." They kept on, and the boy apparently left them far behind in his career of youthful exuberance, until they came to the factories.
"One danger escaped," breathed Henry as they slackened speed. "But thar's more to come. Still, I'm glad I don't hev to run so fast fur a time. It's fine to be a race horse, but you can't be a racin' all the days an' nights o' your life." "We must cross the creek some way or other, Sol.
How queer was the sound of that jerky talk! "You ever see old Fookes now? Been racin' at all? You live in Town? Remember good old Blenker?" And then silence, and then another spurt: "Ever go down to 'Bambury's? Ever go racin'? . . . Come on up to my 'digs. You've got nothin' to do." No persuading Johnny Dromore that a 'what d'you call it' could have anything to do. "Come on, old chap.
People have no reason at all no sense; they've got it into their heads that dirty job was of my making, and if the filly starts at ten to one, and I win a bit, they'll howl." "You can't make a success of racin', sir, an' run your stable for the public they don't pay the feed bill." "Perhaps you're right, Dixon," answered Porter.
"'It's all in getting accustomed to it, he says. "I spends the night at a hotel in Philadelphia with a guy named Ben, who's the mechanic, 'n' the next mawnin' I sees the race. Say! Prize-fightin', or war, or any of them little games is like button-button to this automobile racin'! They kills two guys that day 'n' why they ain't all killed is by me.
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