18 LIFE WITH THE TEOTTEES. 



her lie got his nom deplume from a horse he looked after, 

 in Jimmy's case it being the famous mare Lucy, that 

 Orrin Hickok drove in her best races, and that became so 

 < elebrated as the stable companion of Goldsmith Maid. In 

 "Lucy Jimmy" I found a good friend, and as distinct a 

 <haracter as I have ever met. He was, without exception, 

 i.he most faithful fellow I ever saw, and in all his half cen- 

 tury of connection with the trotting turf he has never, to my 

 Icnowledge, made a false move or break. His absolute fidel- 

 ity to the interests of the man for whom he is working is 

 JTOmething not often met vsdth. Twenty years after I was 

 Ms pupil, and at a time when I had driven horses to the 

 best records of the day, both at trotting and pacing, this 

 trait of Jimmy's character was illustrated to me in a very 

 ludicrous a,nd convincing manner. It came about in this 

 way: 



Along in 1883 or 1884 my old-time friend, companion, and 

 adviser, Counsellor Crawford, had in his stable a couple of 

 stallions that were among the cracks in their class. One 

 was the bay horse Voltaire, and the other a chestnut stallion, 

 Robert McGregor, that is about as handsome a horse as one 

 will find in a day's journey. At the time of which I speak, 

 Jimmy rubbed Voltaire, and Mr. Crawford had the horse 

 entered in a race at Grand Rapids, Mich. , and as there was 

 no one there to drive him Jimmy concluded to have me, his 

 old-time pupil, handle him in the race. He came to see me 

 about it, and the incident brought up a train of thought 

 regarding the day when I went over to the Fashion track, 

 a boy, to learn to be a trotting-horse driver. Jimmy stated 

 the case to me and asked if I would drive Voltaire. Of 

 course I consented. Jimmy said that the horse had a chance 

 to win, perhaps, second money, and thought I had better 

 lay him up a heat or two, let the others fight, and then get 

 my position in the last end of the race. I thought it a good 

 idea, and told him so, but when we got the word for the first 

 heat several of the other horses made a break, and I con- 

 cluded that would be a good chance for me to win the heat 



