376 LIFE WITH TITE TROTTERS. 



tile same number of peoiDle in other walks in life. For 

 instance, the pool-sellers and book-makers liave and hold at 

 different times a great deal of money which belongs to other 

 people and that, too, without giving the slightest security 

 for it. We often hear of bank presidents, treasurers and 

 cashiers and other men holding positions of trust going 

 off to Canada with other people's money, but who has ever 

 heard of a pool-seller doing so? 



I once had a horse-trade with a banker who told me he 

 did not have much confidence in horsemen, but when I told 

 him there were more bank presidents than horse jockeys in 

 Canada, he changed the topic. There are other men who 

 love a trotting horse for the pleasure it gives them. While 

 they do not from inclination or need trot their horses in 

 jmblic, they derive a great deal of pleasure from them, and 

 add very much to the interest of the sport. Such men as 

 Mr. Robert Bonner and William and John Rockefeller have 

 made it possible by their example for a man although he be 

 a minister of the gospel to own and drive a trotter without 

 causing any unpleasant remarks. I once trained a horse for 

 a Catholic priest named Father Barry, who lived on Staten 

 Island, and if charity toward the faults and weaknesses of 

 others as well as their bodily ailments, a life of unceasing 

 toil in behalf of needy creatures, and a love for all that was 

 good and true, for humanity' s sake and not for what anyone 

 might have said of him, are the characteristics of a Christian, 

 my patron. Father Bai'ry, was surely one. 



