68 LIFE WITH TlIK TUOTTERS. 



to-day is one that lie used to relate with great gusto — how 

 he, ill walking alone one cold winter day on the West Side, 

 espied a beautiful terrier dog that seemed to be without an 

 owner. F'eeling pity for the animal, ' ' Nosey " ' reached down, 

 and a moment later the dog had a warm resting place 

 beneath his overcoat. Just then the owner of the animal 

 appeared, and "Nosey,'' who was unaware that the i^iqi 

 belonged to anybody, was soon engaged in a lively scraj) 

 with the man. " I hung on to the pup," he used to say, 

 "as we rolled over on the ground. I downed 1113' man, and 

 got up and ran away, with the log still under my overcoat. 

 AVhen I paused for breath I looked under my coat, but the 

 pup was dead. It seems tliat I had fallen on him, and he was 

 mashed out as Hat as a postage stamp. It was the only fight 

 that I had won that winter, and the prize was a dead dog 

 that the police would not let me put in the street, and that 

 nobody seemed to want.'' 



In the Cleveland race May Queen was a long favorite. 

 The track was deep, owing to a good deal of rain having 

 fallen. In working Rarus out before the race, I found that 

 he was about as helpless a horse in that sort of footing as I 

 had ever seen. I made iq^ my mind that he had no chance 

 to win, and that I would simitly go along and save my 

 distance. May Queen won easily in straiglit heats, in 

 2:226i, 2:25^, and 2:27^, "Nosey" Brown and myself 

 having a good race for second money, which Rarus won 

 after a pretty tight finish. Tliis was my first race with 

 Rarus, but the track was so bad that I had no chance to do 

 anything in the race to give me any opinion as to his ability. 

 From there we went to Buffalo where the purse was $3,()(>0, 

 where we again met May Queen and General Garfield, Car- 

 rie being also in the race. A few days before the Buffalo 

 meeting, Mr. Conklin suggested that I take Rarus out, 

 give him some work, and see what I thought of him. I 

 followed his suggestion and drove liim the first mile in 

 2:30; the second heat T drove him in 2:22^, and, when I 

 was told how fast he liad gone, was very much surprised, as 



