ANDY AND I. 



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are permitted a continuance of their present successful 

 efforts against the sport of this country — France will be 

 the trotting nation of the world. There were 30,000 peo- 

 ple in attendance the day we were there and every one — 

 including Andy and myself — went wild with enthusiasm. 

 So far as the management and control of the sport is con- 

 cerned, their associations are now fifty years ahead of the 

 Americans. They are that far behind us in horseman- 

 ship. I do not believe the French to be a nation of nat- 

 ural horsemen, and that is their handicap. If it were not 

 for discriminating and hostile practices against the Amer- 

 ican trotters, in not allowing them to compete against their 

 products, France would to-day be a veritable land of gold 

 for American trainers and American trotters. 



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There was once a ditty about the Maumee as fetching 

 in its day as is now the refrain entitled "On the Banks of 

 the Wabash," but not so sentimental, for it ran : 



The potatoes they grow small 



On the Maumee, 

 And they dig them in the fall. 

 And they eat them skins and all, 



On the Maumee. 



That was many, many years ago, and now, instead of 

 the old blockhouse, the beautiful and prosperous city of 

 Toledo is located at the mouth of the classic stream. 



