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The first time I got on him, he went up in the air and 

 nearly came back over on me. We got a stout piece of 

 twine and made a standing martingale, then started out. 

 We met a motor outside the alley and he jumped ten feet. 

 When we got to Drexel Boulevard he went all over the 

 place — through the bushes, over garden plots, etc. 



It was hopeless, so I sent him to the late WiUie Good- 

 win's at Naperville. There I forgot him from May till 

 August. One of the dealers at the Yards was shipping 

 a load of horses to Liverpool, England, so I sent this 

 horse along. His first performance in Scotland was to 

 put the groom down. However, they put a strong stand- 

 ing martingale on him and although always motor shy, 

 he entered well with hounds. He was a natural jumper. 

 1 began riding him when I got home. 



One day before the regular season began, when we 

 were cub hunting, hounds got away on the line of an old 

 fox. They went a great pace across the vale, then we 

 breasted a long steep hill, a mile or more, down the other 

 wide. Just about the bottom of it the fox turned nearly 

 directly back. We had of course to go with the pack. 



The chestnut colt, which by this time I had named 

 Chicago, never stopped galloping and charged every fence 

 (and there were some woolly ones) with great courage. 

 I had got a prize. For ten years I rode him over hill 

 and dale. It did not matter whether you were in a close 

 country or galloping over the hills — he was equally at 

 home. I never had a horse that loved a jump as much 

 as he did. He went right at it pulling double and in 

 later years never wasted a pound of energy. While he 

 was a damphool when he met or saw a motor he was 

 one of the wisest horses I ever crossed country upon. 



One morning he was dead in his stall. Well done, good 

 and faithful servant! Not only servant, but a rare com- 

 panion. 



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