Show FAVORITE HOSE ot of us W who ho so go racing either tor for a living or to be lively hear a large n u in her bar ot of good 1 stories thories during our 1 travels and laugh at them in proportion to their merit and piquancy few can tie be retold indiscriminately As arule a rule they are libelous belous ll or demoralizing or both it Is not prudent to retail them in the family circle before victors of more or less strong religious convictions happily the story of 0 faltys Fa favorite may be told without tear fear ot of bringing a blush to the cheek check ot of the youngest or most moat foolish person who to Is he was the question people asked in wonder as th they ey and he went rent on the course probably with IL a common purpose to get a bit as the mission is called by those who follow it and the reply was invariably the same fatty that was waa was all fatty pure and simple this seemed to satisfy public curiosity further interrogation was considered adventurous in view of the startling facts it might reveal to look at him was enough especially when he was backing losers truly fatty was a remarkable aba cba character facter un unconventional conventional in his life and customs also in hla his ideas as to the rights of 0 individuals so far as personal property was concerned what lie he wished to have he thought he be was entitled to take it if the own owners a rs attention was diverted and no man fan was cleverer than he in diverting owners attention when there was anything to be taken by doing so not a person ot of high principle he could afford to purchase the luxuries ot of the season in sufficient abundance to gratify his appetite which was immense to many persons persona ot of the highest principle such luxuries are unknown when in his best form fatty accomplished complis hed notable feats his favorite maneuvers were executed on the race course he was quite at home there and moved about both in the ring and paddock with immunity from assault A friend told me this story about fatty in confidence bence hence I 1 pass it OR OB in the sane same spirit we were returning from camptown Camp town steeplechases steeplechaser steeple chases after a bad day ano and were bemoaning our anaemic conditi condition olL this Is no game I 1 remarked for honest well meaning men and I 1 vainly hunted tor for the remnants of a cheap which I 1 hoped had not been thrown away in better times yes its a poor game said my companion comp anlon ched when one loses ones money in order to maintain ones rectitude of purpose now look at fatty he added after a pause rather inconsequentially Quent lally you never hear him complain camplain of his bad luck it Is those who have been playing with him who lift up their voices he knows very well that luck keep him in grease for ills his moustache and boots but some of us are afraid of prison I 1 murmured regretfully well just listen to a short account of what fatty did the other day and then talk about prisons it if you like of course you know that at one time he kept a small coffee shop in the east end ot of london and now bets in thousands that denotes the master mind he to Is called fatty because of his bis protuberance not in reference to any other personal distention 54 ai RV RODE A FINISH ile he looks at you as it were from behind a flour bag especially when wearing a white waistcoat and he talks to you as though he be would tall fall backwards it if you pushed against it 0 yes hes very tory hot Is fatty hes had his bis ups and downs and has always faced the music bravely whether hether vF hed a shirt on ills els back or a scarf round his bis neck lies hes made money too by backing em am on the course from personal experience I 1 knew that was true and I 1 could not help reflecting ting that a man must be clever to make money at a sport by which most of us lose our little all and what we are able to borrow yet such a man is ie no doubt more than clever he does not mind what ho he does my idea Is that the wealthy punters ar re those who it they cannot find winners find something else also ot of value and do not necessarily walt wait until it is lost but the last paragraph may be treat id ad as a philosophical digression having baying no relation to the story which was continued by my friend as follows I 1 then fatty after a brilliant coup got fat some racehorses of his own he was tired of backing other peoples see gee gees bees and wished to try how he be could work them under his own proprietorship and supervision he ha had no do desire to owr own high dast class borses lio rEea ile he know knew that money could be made out ot of little ram rao as well veil as out of 0 big only with greater certainty cert anty he tied nad not a joul above his argument was waa that you can win as much with a bad horse borse as with a good one it II you can uck him with confidence to beat worse irone ril incontrovertible controvertible I 1 rem remarked arced ln in the story tor for a moment but bilt I 1 never chuh find wora than I 1 antea 56 nobody ever had such lad bad one as those which I 1 collected with great care cam at a small expense no one ever accused you ot at knowing the game said my friend severely you should only go out with 9 0 barrel organ and a monkey being tied to its tall you might be clever enough to take the tha pennies it if the donors P placed I 1 ace them them in your hand closed it over ove r them tenderly and swore you to secrecy but fatty was a perfect tradesman he was after the nimble every time he used to back his bit whelk it was good enough to do so when not he used to let other people back them and invest his money on something else it to la a beautiful game so long as you can play it without danger from the mob or from the th stewards who was faltys Pa Fa trainer I 1 asked feeling confident that position was not a sinecure why surely you know retorted the th historian fatty would of 0 course only have one sort of trainer il a man who would do as he was told without asking questions old jerry of 0 realized his ideal ol of that tha character you remember jerry ha h always seemed to be trying to best somebody and was generally in debt talk about the very warm members he could give most of them a start over what Is called a rogues course and make hacks backs of em when it came to pure thieving I 1 should not like to be b I a dying man engaged in cuddling my m moneybags money bags bagg tor for the last time it if jerry jerr were in the sick chamber watching my struggles he would accelerate my doom to obtain the treasure and how did his employer trust him I 1 inquired tor for I 1 had a little knowledge of the trainer and recognized that the elegant simile as to the peril ot of the moribund person toying with his cash deposits was not an exaggeration indeed jerry would no doubt have also removed any false teeth that might have been in the unfortunate persons jaws so as to set get the gold to bet with trust him replied my informant well you know how tar far such me men trust each other like one hungry do dog 9 trusts a hungrier one in sight eight of an odorous bone so ions as both could I 1 get a bite they do not worry each othel as to which secured the most pestiferous portion they went on well tor for a time and faltys Fa nose reflected hla his prosperity to a marked extent 13 beamed upon us in the paddock and assumed more colossal proportions and brighter tints as its owner put on flesh and added to his balance at the th bank then came the picturesque incident at camptown Camp town park previously hinted at here the orator took breath and expanded his chest before embarking on the more exciting part 0 of hla his recital refreshed by the rest he continued fatty had one ot of his in a selling race at camptown Camp town and on the tha book it had bad a great chance accordingly the public made his horse favorite and backed it down to even mon money in a large field ot of runners fatty could not stand that he did not care tor for even money chances so alter after conferring with his trainer he gave him instructions to the effect that the favorite need not exert himself unduly in the race and that precautionary measures might wisely be adopted with that end the wrong end in view having arranged matters to his bis satisfaction the astute owner of the favorite went into the ring and backed a horse which he ha believed was a certainty while hla his candidate enacted the part of spectator A jockey who would listen to reason when it took the form ot of ready money was riding the favorite therefore it was waa that when the horse cantered to the post fatty felt slightly above him self his bis usual sensation when he considered that he was backing one certainty in a race irace find and laying against another certain not to win the result of the race however was not what he desired the favorite had bad more in hand than his owner or trainer thought his jockey could not quite hold him thus he found himself near home in view of the public before he was able to get a pull it was then too late pull as hard as he could people would see him he be might be warned ott off naturally tearing fearing that disaster he sat down and rode a finish of 0 considerable sid erable merit making a dead heat ot of JL it you may mar imagine his employers awful sensations he had backed one ot of the dead heaters to win a large stake he be had bad laid against the other to lose a lot ot of money I 1 then jerry appeared in the paddock and held conference with his patron the result seemed satisfactory to the latter he whispered a few words to his trainer and jerry hurried away again as though on a mission of importance it was wag so tor for that dead heat was never run off they agreed to divide I 1 asked innocently ly having no idea at that time what bad men will do to get money agreed to divide repeated my friend with scornful emphasis fatter falacy fatty dividing anything with anybody when ha had a chance ot of collaring the hotl when the time arrived tor for runn ingoff the dead heat the favorite could not be found jerry had bad been to the li stables tables surreptitiously and lost himi him I this like other things Is I 1 am informed easily done wheal when you know how to do it it fatty still goes racing and Is far tatter fatter than ever especially underneath his white waistcoat but the public do not rush after his hot favorites now and some of the punters those who bet for a living and live well at times declare that they can afford to lose when fatty wins rn in dowil town |