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large eyes upon him and then drop them to his 

 foot, as if asking sympathy for his misfortune. 

 Old John Harper of Kentucky, who had brought 

 a real race-horse to a good man's country to meet 

 the best of them, sat leaning on his stick, gazing 

 at the horse, with big tears trickling down his 

 face. 



Small wonder, then, that when Longfellow was 

 loaded on the cars and old John Harper headed 

 himself mournfully away for the blue-grass land, 

 where the future home for Longfellow must be, 

 that hundreds and hundreds of the men who 

 love a horse for the things which a horse may 

 do crowded about the car to see the last of the 

 hero that had come and had conquered, and had 

 gone away with defeat upon him only because 

 the wounds of his strife barred him from victory. 



The meeting at Saratoga began July 13, and 

 on that day Harry Bassett won the All-Aged 

 Sweepstakes, one mile and a quarter, beating 

 Victoria, Lyttleton, and Ortolan in 2.ii\. 



Same place, July 19, Bassett again defeated 

 Lyttleton, this time at three miles, in 5.43f. 

 Same place, August 21, he beat Mary Louise 

 two miles and a quarter over a heavy course in 

 5.06. He won by twenty lengths. He then 



