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^The officers, thoronglily disgusted, proposed a 

 third race, and brought to tlie ground a magnificent 

 Kentucky mare, of the true Lexington blood, and 

 known to beat the best of the others at least 40 yards 

 in 400. The Indians accepted the race, and not 

 only doubled bets as before, but piled up everything 

 they could raise, seemingly almost crazed with the 

 excitement of their previous success. The riders 

 mounted ; the word was given. Throwing away his 

 club, the Indian gave a whoop, at which the sheep- 

 like pony pricked up his ears, and went away like 

 the wind, almost two feet to the mare's one. The 

 last fifty yards of the course was run by the pony 

 with the rider sitting face to his tail, making hideous 

 grimaces, and beckoning to the rider of the mare to 

 come on. 



' It afterwards transpired that it was a trick-and- 

 straight-race pony, celebrated among all the tribes 

 of the south, and that Mu-la-que-top had only just 

 returned from a visit to the Kickapoos, in the Indian 

 nation, whom he had easily cleaned out of 600 

 ponies.' ^ 



^ Hunting-grounds of the Great West, by Lieut.-Colonel Dodge, 

 U.S.A. 



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