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old and out of a job. I spoke to the Governor about 

 him. He said right away: 'Charley doesn't have to 

 look for work. Bring him here.' And when he came 

 the Governor repeated what he had said to me. 'Stay 

 right here, Charley,' he said. 'If you want something 

 to do just go over to Electioneer's stall and look after 

 the old horse.' Cochran looked after him as long as 

 the great sire lived. And after that he lived on the 

 farm, by order of the Governor, until he died. 



"Charley was always worrying about being home- 

 less and penniless in old age. He wanted to play safe 

 until he was in his grave. In his last years he used to 

 tell with joy how Henry Walsh, who trained Flam- 

 beau and other runners at Palo Alto, had provided 

 in his will that Charley should be buried in the Walsh 

 lot in the local cemetery at Menlo Park. The old man 

 had a copy of the will, which he showed me the last 

 time I saw him, saying: 'I'm safe, now.' " 



"Besides being a noted character on the trotting 

 turf old Charley had been a forty-niner, and that 

 probably helped to warm the Governor's heart toward 

 him. 'Yes,' Dwyer mused, 'Cochran, Jack Bachelor 

 and Bill Lovell first met in Cahfornia in 1849 and 

 prospected for gold together. Lovell came there from 

 Austraha and was known as Sydney Bill. Cochran 

 was, of course, a very different character from either 

 of the others. No more trustworthy groom than old 

 Charley ever rubbed a trotter.' 



"Lovell afterward came to New York, owned 

 American Girl, the rival of Goldsmith Maid, ran a 

 poolroom and later kept a boarding stable in West 



