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Troup joined him with Trombine, and the audience watched the three trotters warm up and shouted or applauded each as it spun past the grand-stand. Then the starting-judge held up a silk bag in the center of the wire. It held three thousand dollars in gold, and it swung around and then settled, to a shining, shimmering silken sack, swaying the wire as it flashed in the sun.
"Don't hurt nobody, Jack," whispered the old man, "be keerful." The crowd were for the old man. They still shouted "Fair play, fair play let him start," and they came thronging and crowding on the track. "Clear the track," cried the starting-judge to a deputy sheriff in charge "I'll let him start." This set the crowd in a roar. "Square man," they yelled "Square man!"
The starting-judge clanged his bell, but the drivers, being gentlemen, were heedless of rules and drove on around still warming up. The starting-judge was about to clang again this time more positively when there appeared at the draw-gate a new comer, the sight of whose horse and appointments set the grand-stand into a wild roar of mingled laughter and applause.
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