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Updated: September 8, 2025
"'Of course, I realize you are more familiar with horse racing than myself, he says; 'but I think you should have allowed him to do a little better. What method did you employ to make him remain so far in the rear? "'I tells the jock to pull him, I says. The boy was usin' the bat half the trip, but Elsy never tumbles. "'What do you say to a jockey when you desire him to lose? Elsy asks me.
Wentworth immediately set to work packing up a few necessaries, and with the small amount of money she had left awaited the next morning, when she would start for Pass Manchac. On the following morning she proceeded to the boat, amid the cries and lamentations of the faithful Elsy, and with throbbing heart and many sighs gazed on her loved city until it had receded from her view.
He left her, declaring that she should be turned out of the city, and a few days after, in proof of his threat, an order was presented to her, signed by General Butler, commanding her to leave the city. Her faithful slave, Elsy, shed bitter tears on hearing that her kind mistress would have to leave New Orleans, and declared that she would not remain in the city, but would follow her.
"It only was a few days ago," replied Elsy, "and Auntie come here ebery day, but you and Miss Emma was not at home ebery time, and she only tole me about it dis mornin." "Are you certain that the woman who has been carried to jail is your Mistress?" asked Dr. Humphries. "No sah," she answered, "Auntie say dat de name am different, but dat de name ob de leetle gal am de same."
Elsy, practisin' the owner act, has gummed the game Alcyfras is over in the other end of town. "Ole Friendless bustin' the track record is the final blow. I don't hardly get to the stall 'fore here comes the paddock judge 'n' his assistant. "'We want this hoss and you, too, over at the paddock, he says. 'What's the owner's name? "'Alcibides Tuttle, I says.
"Thank you," she answered, looking at Elsy. "This is really a nice looking girl. Who did you buy her from?" "She says she is from New Orleans. Her master is a prisoner in the hands of the Yankees, and her mistress being turned out of her home by Butler, is now somewhere in the Confederacy, but where, the girl cannot tell.
I can't get you properly placed. The Association will take charge of this horse until the judges rule. "The next day the judges send fur me 'n' Elsy. It don't take Colonel King thirty seconds to rule me off I don't get back fur two years, neither! Then the colonel looks at Elsy. "'Mr.
The answers come back all proper 'n' to cinch it I produce Elsy as owner. They look Elsy over while he tells 'em he's bought the hoss. "'Gentlemen, says Colonel King to the other judges, 'the mere sight of Mr. Tuttle has inspired me with full confidence in his entry and himself. He bows to Elsy 'n' Elsy bows to him.
"None that I could devise," answered Dr. Humphries. "I know nothing of the family personally, nor would I have known anything of their existence, had not chance carried me to the auction sale, at which I purchased Elsy." "Call the girl here for me," Harry said: "I must learn something more of the departure of Mrs.
"Poor woman and children," observed the Doctor, dashing away a tear, "could I have known their penury, I should have been only glad to relieve them, and even now, it is not too late for us to benefit this child and his mother. As soon as Elsy arrives here I shall remove the boy to my house and visit the mother in jail."
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