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Show A TtEAL "HOSS" 'RACE. 'Ctuntry Fair the Placo to See It at Its Best. Tf you would bog n horso strapped, strap-ped, booted, braced and geared to tho limit, you must seek such a track us you see nt tho old-tlmo lountry fair. Here comes nn nwk-ward nwk-ward flea-bitten gray which never went under 2: CO In his life. Ho Is hobbled and checked nnd goggled, and hitched up sldowlsc, lengthwlso nnd crosHWIso until thero Is more harness har-ness than horse. You wonder how his driver over got him Into this rigging, rig-ging, and how he will get hlm out again without cutting him free with a Jackknlfe. A farmer with u gray beard and twinkling eyo observes ob-serves to lila neighbor: "Last Units John Martin had that plug out on the road I told him ho had tho old cripple overloaded with fust-alds-to-thelnjiircd. Thorn straps that was cal'lated to hoist up his knees must ha' pulled too tight nnd tho critter was yanked clean oft the ground. What John was gcttln' ready for was n race for Ilyln' machines, ma-chines, not n boss trot." Prom "Tho Country fair," by Dnvld Lansing, In Outing. |