DOGGEREL ON— ME 



" So backers cheer and bookies groan, 

 As race by race is won by Sloan, 

 On horses chestnut, bay or roan, 



No matter if they're shoddy. 



" They may be broken-kneed or lame, 

 He wins upon them just the same, 

 So here's to health, and wealth, and fame, 

 Of Yankee-doodle Toddy ! " 



Here is another " beaut." 



" At Chelsea Tod should make his home. 

 When he has time to spare. 

 For if that way you chance to roam, 

 I know you'U find Sloan's square." 



Yet one more. 



" I loved Fred Archer in the past, 

 I admire Tod Sloan to-day, 

 Still Tommy Loates will give him beans, 

 Before he goes away." 



This was one at me. 



" The best way to appreciate Tod Sloan is to put him in the Lord 

 Mayor's show." 



And the last, which was much quoted at the time, 

 they keep framed in my home at Kokomo : 



T actful, 

 O riginal, 

 D aring. 



S kilful, 

 L ucky, 

 O bservant, 

 A mbitious, 

 N erveless. 

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