RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



2.42, which is twenty seconds slower than my limit 

 of 2.22. 



General Tracy should not accuse me of dodging, 

 because I have not accepted propositions entirely dif- 

 ferent from those proposed in my original challenge. 

 He suggested that he had one three-year-old by Mam- 

 brino Dudley, Virginia Evans, a tried filly, and I 

 agreed to trot a Mambrino King of the same age 

 against her. I also offered to modify my plans so 

 as to trot one two-year-old by Mambrino King and 

 one two-year-old by Almont Jr. against one two- 

 year-old by Kentucky Wilkes and one two-year-old 

 by Mambrino Dudley. This does not seem to be 

 satisfactory. The General wants to make a blind 

 dive into the future. He, like myself, is old enough 

 to be content with the things of the present. I am 

 sorry that he is so hard to please. 



My neighbor and friend, Mr. Jewett, is monot- 

 onously pacific. He has a stallion with a faster 

 record than 2.22 and he has more than four three- 

 year-olds in training by him, and yet he will not meet 

 the reasonable test proposed. He will not trot the 

 get of Jerome Eddy, 2.16^, against the get of Mam- 

 brino King, an undeveloped stallion, for a bouquet, 

 a yard of ribbon, or for money. All he asks is a 

 fee of $200 from deluded farmers and to be let 

 alone. He will not even entertain my offer to trot 

 the get of a $10 Village Farm stallion against any 

 horse ever sired at Jewett Stock Farm. And some 

 people call him a plucky man, an enterprising 

 breeder! When a ground hog proves to you by un- 

 mistakable signs that he is dead, what is the use of 

 spending time and physical effort in digging him 

 out of the hole ? 



Mr. Wallace has the assurance to talk about dou- 



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