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that he had purchased the horse for a large amount 

 and was going to take it to Europe. He said that he 

 remembered the name of the town where the owner 

 lived, although he had never met him, and spoke to 

 me when he saw by the register that I came from the 

 same place. 



*'By that time I began to get wise to the opera- 

 tions of my young friend and on my return home he 

 told me that he had purchased a colt for a small 

 amount and placed it in the hands of a trainer. By 

 careful management he succeeded in saving enough 

 money to pay the bills until the horse was ready to 

 go to the races and the loan was to take care of the 

 shipping bills and entrance fees. His horse also won 

 its first race and kept winning. In fact there were 

 only five or six races in the four years when it failed 

 to get in the money and as he quietly remarked 

 his trainer knew that it was not good while the public 

 made it a top heavy favorite. No one with a grain 

 of sense in the racing world ever ask for anything 

 better than that, where there is pool selling with the 

 field selling against the favorite. To one on the inside 

 it was like finding money and he did. 



''However, that young man is now one of the 

 directors of the bank and he will inherit the few 

 pennies I have saved, as he has also married my 

 daughter. In time he will no doubt come to one of 

 these conventions when he may tell a few of you 

 how he owed his start in life to a horse." 



