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might work a small hardship on those of us who did register, but 

 saddle horse men can afford to be fair with one another. 



I assure you of my willingness to co-operate with you in. every 

 matter that may result in good to the cause. I hope that every 

 one will spread the news and let us have one grand love feast at 

 our next meeting to be held at Mexico during the big sale. 



THE SADDLE "HOSS." 



(Mat. S. Cohen, Lexington, Kentucky.) 



I was asked to make a thirty-minute talk. The one I pre- 

 pared consumes just fifteen minutes. Prof. 

 Trowbridge has suggested that I fill in on 

 water. 



When I received Secretary Wilson's 

 letter asking me to make a short talk this 

 evening, I said to my mother, "It's nice of 

 Mr. Wilson to make such request of me," 

 and she, thinking there is but one Wilson 

 on earth, said, "Go, my son," and that's just 

 what I've done, and right now she believes 

 I am humoring the President-elect of the 

 United States. I hope she will never be any 

 wiser. 



Yes, I was asked to deliver a "popular" 

 address, but knowing that Kentuckians and Missourians never 

 agree upon any one thing, I am going to say just what I please, 

 because I have been promised all kinds of protection — sympathy, 

 too. 



I want to say to you that Missouri owes much to Kentucky, 

 that Kentucky owes much to Missouri. We gave you the celebrated 

 "Black Squirrel," and you traded him back to us in exchange for 

 ^Governor David R. Francis. We gave you that gallant senator, 

 'William J. Stone. You gave us the great Rex McDonald. We 

 .'gave you the founder of Jefferson City, Astral King; and now I 

 .am commissioned by the "hoss"-loving people of Kentucky to offer 

 you a whole trainload of horses in exchange for Trowbridge. 



It is strange to me how Professor Trowbridge got such won- 

 'derful hold on Kentuckians. I never saw "great" or "grandeur" 

 ;stamped upon him, but they must be there. Why, only last week 



Mai. S. Cohen. 



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