have stayed on his feet without them. Well, sail I, we 

 can all think of the right thing at the right time if we 

 don't stock our brains with a lot of stuff that is not true. 

 Men try to do so many things that they don't know any- 

 thing about. Then, said Mr. Scanlan, every time I struck 

 a wet place, I thought "now, it's all oft," but it seemed that 

 he went all the faster. Yes, said I, I was extremely well 

 pleased in the way you finished, that you did not drive 

 him under the wire with the whip. It made so much better 

 showing, and it looked as if you were holding him back. It 

 was not quite so excitable, but it was much more sensible, 

 and I believe, Dennis, you could have been a race horse 

 driver as well as a real estate dealer, but I know you will 

 stay with the latter. 



As I started for my train, Mr. Scanlan handed me 

 something, and said, take this for your careiare. I thanked 

 him and went in the car, and when the conductor came to 

 collect fare, I took this token that Mr. Scanlan had placed 

 in an envelope, and found, respectively, one ten and two 

 twenty dollar bills. And the conductor, whose name was 

 Charles Foote, said : Don't spring any bills on me. Well, 

 said I, I got this from Mr. Scanlan, to pay my carfare. 

 Then said Conductor Foote, Mr. Scanlan must have 

 thought you were going to New York. No, said I, I 

 shod a colt for him and that's what I got for it. Well, 

 said Mr. Foote, keep it and I'l pay your car fare, and he 

 tore 'a coupon from his account book and handed it to me 

 with a smile. He, like Mr. Scanlan, likes to see others 

 happy. 



Here is another letter that was published in the Chicago 

 Horse Review, in the Christmas Number, 1899, from Mr. 

 A. H. Von Wickerwood Cfommerling, of Heemsteade, 

 Holland. I copy part of this letter, as he describes the 

 breeding and names of his horses, etc. He, in part, says : 

 Concurrent, Cyclone and Controleur won respectively the 

 most honorable trotting prizes of the year in Holland. 



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