18 LIFE WITH THE TEOTTERS. 



ber he got his nom deplume from a horse he looked after, 

 in Jimniy's case it being the famons mare Lucy, that 

 ()rrin Hickok drove in her best races, and that became so 

 celebrated as the stable companion of Goldsmith Maid. In 

 "Lucy Jimmy" I found a good friend, and as distinct a 

 (iharacter as I have ever met. He was, without exception, 

 i he most faithful fellow I ever saw, and in all his half cen- 

 tury of connection with the trotting turf he has never, to my 

 ]5;nowledge, made a false move or break. His absolute lidel- 

 f.ty to the interests of the man for whom he is working is 

 something not often met with. Twenty years after I was 

 ]\is x^npil, and at a time when I had driven horses to the 

 best records of the day, both at trotting and jDacing, this 

 trait of Jimmy's character was illustrated to me in a very 

 ludicrous a,nd convincing manner. It came about in this 

 way : 



Along in 1883 or 1884 my old-time friend, companion, and 

 adviser. Counsellor Crawford, had in his stable a couple of 

 stallions that were among the cracks in their class. One 

 was the bay horse Yoltaire, and the other a chestnut stallion, 

 Robert McGregor, that is about as handsome a horse as one 

 will find in a day's Journey. At the time of Avhich I speak, 

 Jimmy rubbed Voltaire, and Mr. Crawford had the horse 

 entered in a race at Grand Rapids, Mich., and as there was 

 no one there to drive him Jimmy concluded to have me, his 

 old-time pupil, handle him in the race. He came to see me 

 about it, and the incident brought up a train of thought 

 regarding the day when I went over to the Fashion track, 

 a boy, to learn to be a trotting-horse driver. Jimmy stated 

 the case to me and asked if I would drive Yoltaire. Of 

 course I consented. Jimmy said that the horse had a chance 

 to win, perhai)s, second money, and thought I had better 

 lay him up a heat or two, let the others fight, and then get 

 my position in the last end of the race. I thought it a good 

 idea, and told him so, but when Ave got the word for the first 

 heat several of the other horses made a break, and I con- 

 cluded that Avould be a good chance for me to win the heat 



