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Updated: June 15, 2025
A crabbed old man in a grey coat, with horn buttons, and tan-colored pantaloons, looking as if he didn't know what to make exactly of the character of his visitors, was on the porch. Near him, and somewhat in his rear, was a darkie about as old as himself. "'Won't you get off your critters? at length said the old man, his servant advancing to hold the horses.
About a dozen horses stood stripped for the race, and the betting men were yelling out the odds as we got close enough to the stand to hear them. We had a good look at the lot. Three or four good-looking ones among them, and one or two flyers that had got in light as usual. Rainbow was nowhere about. Darkie was on the card, but no one seemed to know where he was or anything about him.
Guts gave in on the stones; I let him go and walked to the water. I need scarcely say how thirsty we all were. On reaching the water, and wasting no time, Mr. Tietkens and I returned to the three fallen horses, taking with us a supply of water, and using the Fair Maid, Widge, Formby, and Darkie; we went as fast as the horses could go.
As they went away one of the ringmen says, 'Ten to one against Darkie. I lay Darkie. 'Done, says Starlight; 'will you do it in tens? 'All right, says the 'book'. 'I'll take you, says both the Dawsons, and he entered their names. They'd taken all they could get the night before at the hotel; and as no one knew anything about Darkie, and he had top weight, he hadn't many backers. Mr.
I assure you, nightly as we sit down to our evening repast, or later round our wood fire in our "parlour," we congratulate each other, and fancy we would not change places with the highest of the land, the air and life are so intoxicating. After twenty-four hours in Ouray we came up here, sending the darkie Henry and our luggage on before us in a waggon.
During our night march, before reaching the lake that is, owing to the horses we were driving running along them, away from our line we crossed and saw the tracks of the two loose horses, Badger and Darkie; they were making too southerly ever to reach the Rawlinson. Where these two unfortunate brutes wandered to and died can never be known, for it would cost the lives of men simply to ascertain.
The old man was seated in a carved oak chair by the fire. "I never said the dogs were to come in," he said. "But we can't do without them, please," said Robin, boldly. "You see, there are eight people in 'The Peace Egg, and there are only five of us; and so Darkie has to be the Black Prince, and Pax has to be the Fool, and so we have to have them."
It would appear as if Joseph had taken no means of awakening him, for Meredith awoke quite quietly to find Joseph standing by his bed. "Holloa!" exclaimed the master, fully awake at once, as townsmen are. Joseph stood at attention by the bedside. "Woke you before yer time, sir," he said. "There's something wrong among these 'ere darkie fellers, sir." "Wrong! what do you mean?"
Mother was working away in her chair, and father walking up and down before the door smoking. When we were letting go the horses, father comes up and says 'I've got a bit of news for you, boys; Starlight's been took, and the darkie with him. 'Where? I said. Somehow I felt struck all of a heap by hearing this. I'd got out of the way of thinking they'd drop on him.
If Spanish Lu were within short distance of us, the sooner we got Darkie safely home, the better. "'I'll ride her, and you lead Jap, I decided. "We started off at once. As we got out of the glen and on to the prairie we could see in the distance an immense flock of sheep, herded by two men on horseback.
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