Show A STRAIGHT TIP he terrible result of ep dally oil u deuil kura thing talk about your sure things on coret gracei said the veteran have I 1 ever told you about how I 1 was tripped up oa the most beautiful straight tip yoa have ever heard of none of the party had aver heard th story BO the major told it while we were in camp with mcclellan he began we had borne good horses which were worked just about hard bough nough to keep them in fine condition several of them were pretty chasers too but colonel blink had borrel mare which could outrun anything in the army of the potomac well one day a lot of recruits came into camp they were well with tobacco and other little luxuries which help to make a soldiers life bearably bea rabla some of the boys who had been in camp quite a long time looked enviously on the well filled canteens and haver tacks of the newcomers and it was perhaps natural that they should begin te boheme to try to secure some of the luxuries themselves the idea struck ome one to gat ap a hippodrome horie rac the echem was of cocran to have colonel blanks mare run against some of the poorer animals and to have those who were in on th deal to bet against the sorrel mare the rider of tho mare of course would be s party to the deal and he the borrel from winning the race well the details wera all arranged and the plans were working nicely the newcomers had heard all about the fame of the borrel mare and they took th bait like a charm all kinds of article were wagered tobacco whisky coat boots and not a small amount of money on the result we who id put up job were laughing in r sleeves for ahrea days before the race took place on the day designated the mile course which had been laid out on a fairly good road was lined with blua coats from one end to the other when the horses took their places visions of the luxuries which I 1 have named loomed up in our imaginations and wo exchanged ly winks as the horses came down past tho starter As abon as the starter yelled gol tha men in the two long lines began to yell and swing their hats in the air th space between these two linw was not more than fifteen or twenty feet wide and this unusual sight and note frightened the sorrel mare well the just took the bit between her teeth and the way eha did skip down that road was a caution the faster she ran the more the men yelled and the rider no mora check her speed than ho could atop a cyclone at the end of the mils the sorrel led her opponent by fully yards and not satisfied with this she ran nearly another mile before her could stop her new york tribune |