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as the others. Half way down the stretch Wilkins had a 

 length the best of it, he then let one of the reins drop out 

 of his hand and only succeeded in reclaiming it after his 

 horse had made a bad break; he, however, managed to 

 get him levelled again, and after what the spectators 

 termed a big lot of luck, he won the heat by a neck. When 

 the two chaps who had gathered in all the tickets on 

 Missionary met the latter 's owner that night they divided 

 up eleven hundred dollars of spoils, and so the game went 

 on right down through the oil country, and when the bird 

 had flown and the old heads commenced to investigate, 

 they found that one of the cleverest operators that ever 

 mounted a sulky had cooked their bacon for them in 

 great shape. As a Meadville man said, he was a slick 

 enough Canuck to shave a Connecticut Jew. 



