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too late now to get a swell driver," thought Josh, "and, 

 besides, I don't know what he might do if I did get one. 

 We 'swipes' can sit on the track fence and criticize all the 

 drivers, but when we try to drive we make monkeys of 

 ourselves. Still, I'll go ahead the first heat, just keep in- 

 side the flag, and Billy must show up for the second heat. 

 Now, Bourbon, for the Lord's sake remember that over- 

 coat, red necktie, pointed-toed shoes and drive yourself, for 

 I'm scared to death now." So, off goes Josh ; but he kept 

 a long way inside the flag, for he was at the wire first, and 

 if there ever was an astonished "swipe" it was Josh. Not 

 only that, but Billy not "showing up," as Josh put it, he 

 lost the second heat and landed the next two heats and 

 race. Time, 2 :i3*4, 2 '-^^A, 2 :i3^. 



If the reader regards this as fiction, let him look up 

 the record of the Columbus, O., meeting September 13, 

 1895, and ask Wm. L. Rice, of Canal Dover, Ohio, who 

 drove Bourbon Wilkes, Jr., in that event. 



A good pedigree is good; a good horse is better; a 

 good pedigree and a good horse combined is best. 



