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Read the last line ag'in in them big letters: "'Open to anything raised in the Tennessee Valley. "Fine fun an' kinder sarcastic, but, Jack, Ben Butler cu'd make them blooded trotters look like steers led to slaughter." Jack sat looking silently in the fire. "If I had the entrance fee I'd do it once jes' once mo' befo' I die? Once mo' to feel the old thrill of victory!
It was in pursuance of this laudable intention that on the second morning following Ben Blair's adoption into the Box R Ranch a Sunday the Englishman hitched a team of his best blooded trotters to the antiquated phaeton, which was the only vehicle he possessed, and started across country at a lively clip.
Then look at the lady auctioneer selling brass sovereigns a penny apiece. "Buy one, gentlemen, and see what they're like, so as the 'bookies' can't pawse 'em on ye unawares!" "Food enough!" Yes, at Margett's, Patton's, Hatton's, and "The Three Brooms," as well as the barrows for stewed eels, hard-boiled eggs, trotters, coker-nuts, winkles, oysters, cockles, and all the luxuries of the New Cut.
Cooke's best horses, brought hither in his private cars, and the trotters were exercising on the track. The middle of June found Farrar and myself at the Asquith Inn.
In summer they wore buckskin shirts and breech-clouts; in winter they were clad in the fur of the bear and wolf or of the shaggy buffalo. They had moccasins of elk or buffalo hide, and high thigh-boots of thin deer-skin, ornamented with fawns' trotters, or turkey spurs that tinkled as they walked.
I then took a comfortable seat on a fence-rail and asked him if that was the fastest horse he owned. He answered: "No, by gosh, I own one that can out-trot this one." "Yes," I said, "but trotters won't do here. We must have a running horse to do this right."
There is a special journal, La France Chevaline, which represents the interests of the "trot," and its development has been further encouraged by an appropriation of sixty thousand francs voted this year by the Chamber. A former officer of the Haras has also set up an establishment at Vire for the training of trotters.
A pastrycook's shop. Boys looking in at the window. Bill. I say, Jim, ain't it a lot o' grub? If I wos a pig now, Jack. I likes to hear Bill a supposin' of hisself. Go it, Bill! There ain't nothink he can't suppose hisself, Jim. Bein' as you ain't a pig. Bill, you've got yer own trotters, an' yer own tater-trap. Bill.
And my hide's thick. It takes more than just a snub or two or three to knock my number down! Am I to bring Trotters?" "Certainly. Trotters is my friend too. I count on him to do his tricks and help entertain." "They'll say of you, ma'am, afterward that you don't know better than ask Tripe and his vulgar dog to meet nice people." "They'll be right, Tom. I don't know better.
Rather curiously the Chickasaw horses were continually mentioned as of special merit, together with those of imported stock. Attention was paid both to pacers and trotters. The lottery was still a recognized method of raising money for every purpose, including the advancement of education and religion.
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