salva-a-tion

Updated: May 24, 2025

"'Salva-a-tion! goes up from the stands in one big yell. "'There he goes! hollers some swipe across the track, 'n' then everything is quiet. "Miss Goodloe's got her fingers stuck into my arm till it hurts. But that don't bother me. "'Isn't it wonderful? she says, but the pink's gone out of her cheeks. She's real pale . . .

John Taintor Foote - Blister Jones

There's twenty thousand people there 'n' I guess the whole bunch has bet on the colt, from the way it sounds when the hosses parade past. You can't hear nothin' but 'Salva-a-tion! Oh, you Salva-a-tion! "They get a nice break all in a line, but when they come by the stand the first time, the colt's layin' at the rail a len'th in front, fightin' fur his head.

John Taintor Foote - Blister Jones