CASH AS A BUILDER 



fine form, winning about 40 per cent, of my mounts and 

 having on two occasions five winners. It is curious 

 that the number of times I reached this score in a day 

 was exactly the same in three places ; three times in 

 England, three times in New York and three times in 

 California. I have often been asked how many times 

 I have ridden four winners in an afternoon, but I 

 cannot answer this. I should guess the figures at 

 something like fifty. 



I spent two days at my home town Kokomo soon 

 after I came back. There was a ball at Logans-Port 

 and scores of Kokomo people wanted to go, but they 

 didn't know how to get there. I settled the question 

 by ordering a special train and as many as liked to 

 go had only to step aboard. I put them up at the 

 hotel too as my guests. I was " some fellow," they 

 thought — the poor boy who had once run about the 

 town. It was " Blauser this " and " Blauser that " 

 until they found there was no special to go back by. 

 I told them I hadn't bought the train, and that they 

 had only to wait till the next morning for ordinary 

 cars. They didn't like it. 



I also went to Chicago, where I had many friends, 

 for I had spent a long time there with my sister and 

 Cash when I was quite a little kiddie. It was when 

 living in Chicago in 1888 that Johnny Campbell came 

 to where we lived one night to take me out with him 

 to New Jersey. 



Cash was making the living for the family in that 

 fall of 1888 — ten years before the time I have just 

 been speaking of. He was employed in building ; 

 that is to say, he hammered laths on unfinished walls. 

 He'd fill his mouth with tacks and I was certain with 

 the faces he made sometimes that he would swallow 

 a few. I used to go with him very often and hand him 



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