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The next day it just poured down rain, and after din- 

 ner the farmer went out into the yard, where he had left 

 his new and beautiful black, and there stood the old flea- 

 bitten gray. The stableman had dyed him and sold him 

 back to his former owner. He had not time to do a good 

 job of work and used plain lampblack, which the rain 

 washed off. 



This is said to be the actual truth, and the man about 

 whom it is told is now one of the leading business men of 

 the city. He is as well known in Louisville at this time as 

 the Mayor of the city. I think the black horse was a 

 ringer. 



