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fashionable assemblies for weeks. A few clever folk, 

 when they heard of it, decided that they would give 

 Larry a try out, so one evening at a dinner, one of 

 them asked him what he did for a living. Turning 

 towards the impudent fop who was busy twisting 

 a monocle into place, Larry with a smile replied: 'I 

 keep a livery stable in Venice.' 



" 'Why, my dear sir, there are no paved streets in 

 Venice. Where do your patrons drive the horses V 



" 'On the ice in winter,' said Larry, while the 

 table roared and the cad beat a hasty retreat. 



''Nothing in the world bothered Larry Jerome. He 

 was in Paris on Black Friday. What he had went with 

 the holdings of hundreds of others. When advised 

 that his name was included in the list that failed, he 

 picked a cigar out of a friend's pocket, lit it and 

 said: 'It is just as pleasant to go broke in Paris as 

 New York.' 



"Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania delighted in 

 having Larry Jerome in his company. In the spring 

 of 1886 he invited him and a few others including 

 myself, to go with him in his car to see the Kentucky 

 Derby. Lewis Clark, the President of the Louisville 

 Jockey Club, met us at the depot with a four in hand 

 and Larry, without a moment's hesitation, mounted 

 the box and drove the party to the Pendennis Club. 

 No one ever saw a better exhibition of horsemanship 

 than what he put up that morning or when after 

 Idnch he tooled the coach to Churchill Downs. 



"Before leaving us to attend to his other duties. 

 President Clark placed our party in a box. It was 



