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out my horse was good, but did not want to show up until 

 hiter on in the next week, and so informed them, but they 

 said " No, not a cent; go help yourself. The judges became 

 tired of the delay and called out to us, " Go up there and 

 come down or we will send them off without you." We 

 went up and came down and got the word, and I was up in 

 a little better place than I was in any of the other scores. 

 Going around the turn Hannah D. had the lead, Elsie Good 

 second, with Gus Glidden driving her, I was third. My mind 

 was fixed, I preferred any horse to win except Elsie Good, as 

 I was consideral)ly riled up over the breach of contract. As 

 we turned into the back side Elsie Good passed Hannah D., 

 and I followed suit, and we were at the half-mile pole in 1:00. 

 Great Eastern was at Elsie Good's head, and I being a little 

 angry, said to Glidden, her driver, "That his mare could not 

 go a bit,'' and stepped along by her and won the heat easy in 

 2:19. Then there was a terrible howl and hurrah ; the 

 judges made a mistake at first in hanging out the time as 

 1?:21. Alden Goldsmith rushed out of the Grajid Stand, walk- 

 ing almost over peoples' heads, very excited, calling out, '* That 

 is not right, the time is 2:10," and the judges on looking saw 

 their mistake and put out the correct time, 2:10. That started 

 another howl — 2:10 for that big lobster. The Western dele- 

 gation said that heat will do him, he won't come again to- 

 day ; but he did, and won the next heat in 2:21 in a jog. 

 Then the Western people began to get a little nervous, think- 

 ing, perhaps, they had the last look at their money. 

 They sent Frank Herdic, the pool seller, to see me, and pro- 

 posed to give me $2,000 to let Elsie win. I said " No ; I will 

 not let her win for all that is in sight of me just now, for I 

 have got them in over their heads, and I want to drown 

 them rig^it where they are ; then, perhaps, they will do as 

 they agree next time." You could see many a long face on 

 the quarter stretch, and some of the friends of the mare 

 thought Glidden could not drive her, so they put Sant Wil- 

 son, a half owner of her, up, but the result was the same, as I 



