Show I Story of tb Dav lu rn H HAD A LUCKY HUNCH A Washington woman oman employed n. n as a a. a buyer for tor one of ot the department has been amusing her fri friends since her return from New York on Monday l last b by telling them of or her first experience at a roes track Her husband is s also a buyer for a u local firm and the couple generally make maleo their buying expeditions to New York together On Friday Priday evening last she he says when b by husband and I met at hotel for dinner he told me or of an entertaining entertaining enter enter- taming New York merchant with whom he had done some ROme business ss that day The merchant it seemed had tried pretty pretty pretty pret- pret pret pret- ty hard to work off alT a lot of or shopworn and out date gooda on goods on my husband and when he hei found that he couldn't do that and my husband good redl Jollied him for making the attempt he had grinned cheerfully and replied with great groat candor Well Ive I've found out that the golden maxim In business Is to do others or orthe the they'll ii do you ou My Iy husband had not much more than finished telling me inc this story when our attention was attracted by the conversation conversation conversation con con- of ot a a. couple of or very cry flashily flashily- dressed young old men both of ot them wearing a good many diamonds at nt the table tahle directly to the right o of ours The They looked horse horsey and th they y were talkIng talkIng talking talk- talk Ing horse What hat caused us to cock up our ears care however was as the emphatic remark which one of oC them made after glancing at nt his newspaper Gold Golden n Maxim goes gocs tomorrow he ho said and she ought to walk In Did you ou hear that m my ray husband asked me as the two men mn went on with their talk tall Golden Maxim Is a n horse hore and how that name namo does fit in with tho the stor story Ive I've Just been telling you I 1 wonder wonder wonder won won- der If Its It's a hunch He lie W was S eo so much Interested in the hunch that h hb be talked about It rl right ht up to bedtime and In the morning he announced announced announced an an- his Intention of ot taking me inc to the track to pIa play It We se started for the Sheepshead ad Bay race track by wn way ny of oC the Brooklyn bridge about noon on Saturday It was about 1 I o'clock when we reached the theother theother theother other side ido of the tho bridge and then we found that thal there was some somo sort of or breakdown on the lino IIno leading lending out to the track Somebody told us that we might as aswell aswell aswell well give up all nil Idea of or going out to b by the re regular trains and und advised us to take the tho trolley So we walked down to where the trolley trolle cars ears were and found an nn enormous crowd Jammed around them and all of oC these folk wanted to RO JO to the races too it seemed We Ve simply could not get o on l a car carThen Then one of or the trolley parlor cars came mc along Ion and m my husband and Imade Imade I Imade made an effort to reach rench It Where do ye e want to go o a a. big biff natured good policeman Inquired of ot me not noticing that my husband was with me and I replied II the To races Lend us a hand bund Jim said the policeman policeman po po- to lo another policeman standing alongside of or him and almost before I knew what was vas happening the two o ot of them had lifted nv me from front m my feet as ns if I didn't wel weigh h any ony more than a sack ack of ot salt MH which I do rind and nd they thru thrust t me right through h one of or the windows of the troll trolley parlor car as If IC that sort of oC proceeding proceeding proceeding pro pro- were the most ordinary In the world I could hear henr m my husband surprise laughing over my II Theres no chance chanE for or me to get et on that car my husband said ald sticking his head into the car window and Im I'm going going going go go- ing to cross back bl to New York and go up to Thirty fourth street ferry and see pee ee If IC I cant can't got get to the track by that route Now ow take this handing me a fifty fin dollar bill and If It Im I'm not able to ge get et out to the track In time put It on Golden Goldon Gold Gold- I en on Maxim straight In the third race Just then the car started on Its way and there T I was waR separated from m my husband and charged with the awful responsibility of playing a a. hunch when I had hal never In m my life Ufe seen the inside o oa ofa or of ora a race track The first race ince was over h by the tho time the car reached the track and amid then I had to stand tand In line and hu buy a I. I ticket a athe at atthe the window windo and by the time I reached the grand stand stanc the horses were al already already already al- al ready running the second race I r found a seat scat up neat near the top of oC the lie stand next to a pudgy little middle n aged ed woman and two minutes after I sat clown down a young man with a pencil behind his ear came up to her and counted out an awful lot of or mone money Into her hands It hands It must have been more than 00 She was all nil smiles mlles and she appeared the man who handed hand hand- to be guying c young ed e-d her the mone money but her talk was so hor horsey e that it was unintelligible to meI me I was he hesitating as aR to whether Id I'd better better bet bet- ter tot ask her how to bet on Golden Maxim Max Max- im Jm when another young oung man with a n pencil behind hH his ear came along in front of or us us saying Ja prices Prices ladles les tI What hat Is la he selling Helling I asked ed the pudgy woman and she broke Into a laugh and looked at me shrewd shrewdly out of her head beady gray eyes II Hes selling something that most of or n us pa pay for and never g get t. t was her er puzzling reply Then rhen she added Feeing seeing see Fee ing I r suppose that I was such a new nev one lies Hes a n grand rand stand commissioner m my dear and hes he's the man you ou bet with If It you want to bet I do want to bet T I told her I want to bet on Golden Maxim for m mi my husband Golden Maxim aint got ot no chance chanco In the world she told me and of ot course cours that distressed me a n great deal But If IC your our husband told you ou to pIa play Golden Maxim she he went on the the- theone one you want to stick to or It'll make him red Ive I've got Jot a n. husband myself my ray- self elC and I khow how that goes ROCS It makes him bin red-headed red when I let myself myself my my- self BelC git It touted his picks Then she plucked at the sleeve of or the young voun man with the pencil behind his ear who ho was yelling prices s and said to him hini Indicating me rae This lady wants to play Golden Maxim on s-on lay In Ten Ton to one said the young man No you OU dont exclaimed the pudgy woman winking craftily at nt atme me mc I T See 15 to 1 on th that t other chars fellor's on ony a 0 minnit ago 30 Oh all an right mom said the young youns- man good An Any tnY o old c thins thing How low much you ou want lady addressing m I and anu then h he Fifty dollars said sallI r. r whistled and the pu pur pudgy r woman Rasped gasped Straight or place a asked ked the manI manI man he meant but I I r d didn't know wh what t remembered l that m my husband had had Maxim straight and me to play pin Golden so I said straight Seven Se hundred and flet fifty to fitt fifty Golden Maxim to win l said ald the thc young youn- sort of ot ht I detected a tJ man and I thou thought grin around the corners corner of or hi his mouth when hn he made the entry of ot the wager on my 01 to put on n f flot lot 0 o money said the pudgy pud pud- straight on a l 15 5 to 1 t shot when the young oung man gy KY woman oman to me had gon hut but you OU sure ture are afe a dead game sport port fr Cr fair air and I ho hope you ou win another one out although Im I'm t t beat But I aint none o o. em yourn ourn MIno Is for the place and I hope they run Just that w way way Golden Golden Maxim first UNIt second The rhe lov lovely l horses were ere Just coming out on the track track track-I I had lied never Ol seen any race horses hones before betor and md they looked ed h beautiful to me when me-when when my husband husban looking wilted and tired walked up the nisie Isle He hud had recognized my hat from he the lawn ItI 4 I 1 Just got In in he lie sal said Say did you rou ou bet het that lint 50 on Golden Maxim I told him yes II Not Nol straight ht he asked with a a. worried look Jook tI Yes Yea that's what you OU told me I IBal iso so Bal oM Id Oh nh all aJl right said h he with a It crestfallen crest crest- fallen alien expression Hope It S KOC-S through They tell ten me a u. cinch Inch I put 20 O on to win Golden Maxims Maxim's got too loo much wel weight ht thc they hey tell ten me Inc But Dut said I to him how about that hunch II Oh said raid he but you'll never wear any diamonds fooling with hunches you ou know and Just then everybody jumped up and nd that thrilling cry that Id I'd d often read about hut but never heard They're oft off rang rung through the stand It seemed an nn age before the horses came Into view from aw away at nt the other end of oC the track track the the race was run run on what thC they call the straight course course and and I Ithen then I heard everybody yelling candor cander on the bit walks dont don't No walk creamed screamed the pudgy little woman alon alongside alongside along along- side of me Golden Maxim has nailed him and Just about get Jet the place and she gave me a poke with her elbow that almost pushed me over but I didn't mind I mind I enjoyed It Golden Maxim Ja wins h by a n. head hoad she rhe told old me removing remo her Ibid field glasses from train her bel eyes and then with the mo most t perfectly per natured good grin that I ever e saw on a tt womans woman's face she leaned overto over O to lo me and said In a n low tone tona to so that nobody else cite could hear her hier Well If it you aint the luck lucky huzzy The young youn m man n with th the pencil looking nothing like so 50 Jaunty as he had looker looked before appeared and paid mO m ens O In a few minutes and then after merely l. l looking at the next race my tny husband and I returned to New York But my what a fascinating racing I is lit My oly husband huBband says I have c al already al 31 read ready after atter only onh one visit at a track got ot what hat he hc calls the horse bug but really and truly what Is the use In working when one can win 1750 every everyday everyday day a so el easily as aa that Washington that Washington Correspondent New ew York Sun 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