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ing, but tliat when we trotted the followmg day, if either 

 Fiillerton or Great Eastern beat Earns to the half-mile pole, 

 I would price him much cheax)er. He smiled, and com- 

 menced to tell me about some of the halves that Mace had 

 driven Fullerton, but I told him that I thought Earns 

 could beat Fullerton any race from the length of a corn-cob 

 out to the Eocky Mountains, and, if I did not convince him 

 next day that he could do so, I would buy him a red apple. 

 Dunn and I were always good friends, and he was a very jolly 

 companion. We staid around there for some time, talked 

 the race over, and Dunn told me that he had not got his 

 winter' s coal yet, and that, if Earns was that kind of a horse, 

 he would take a few tickets on him in the morning, and fill 

 up his coal-bin with the proceeds, which he did. When 

 the race was called the next day, the track was much better, 

 but the weather was very raw and cold, and only a few of 

 the great number of people that we had seen the day before 

 came to witness the finish of the contests. I gave Earus an 

 easy mile about twenty minutes before the call of the race, 

 not better than 2:30, but stepping the last hundred yards 

 about as well as he could go. An idea of the estimation in 

 which I held the horse may be got from the fact that when 

 I stepped out of the sulky, Mr. Simmons asked me what I 

 thought of my chances of winning, and I told him that I 

 thought he would win sure, and further that he could beat 

 any horse that I had ever seen, Goldsmith Maid not ex- 

 cepted. There had been much talk about Fullerton and 

 Great Eastern out-trotting Earus, and, when I thought the 

 matter over caret ull}^ I made up my mind that the surest 

 way to beat them both was to carry them down to the half- 

 mile pole as fast as they could go. AYhen the word was given, 

 Earus had the pole, and Eastern the second place, with a 

 slight advantage. In going around the turn, Feek's horse 

 crowded me a trifle. I spoke to Jack, and he pulled him 

 out. At this time, Feek's wheel was at my horse's neck, 

 and from there to the turn beyond the quarter pole they never 

 changed positions. When we struck that turn, Feek had 



