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Show " '"! " hi I.ll -..ll... I AMs eowcr him. no v second Inline If suc f yui mouM ol flrt cur- NS vW ,bo surannd tortwith FERRY'S M L SEEDS. llWW ""T1 '"'' i..ivil ror lt III WWW""1"?""1 ""i "': lit micf VVi or tho miei riirinli h knoirl- if YXV edge, 1 erv t.I"- i l ''OHjWaJ v D. Id. Ferry - Co.,"' Awy s. I'"!'. J04P' I "THAT DEATS DOD TAIL. " Origin of a Thr-ao jTnc"h Itenrd In South-en South-en ftlatrs, Tlio plirnao "That Ilcnt Hob Tnll" h not uncommon, even now, In many pnrti of tho country, oapoclnlly In tho aotttli. 1U orlRln trnconlilo to n roco which occurred about 1810, or shortly before Hint year, on tho fnmous Tnlr-flchl Tnlr-flchl track on tho MccIiohImvIIIo turn-plko turn-plko near ISIohmoml, Vn. In thoso tlnys Hob l'olndostcr llvi.l In Richmond. Ho was it sporting mnn, woro flna clolhos anil owtrad a nnmbci othorsct. Amontr his nnlmali waaonu ho named I'lr.arro, a plain bay Roldin,", with black mano mid tall, tho latter bobbed short. Thoro waa nothlnif ex-traordlnnry ex-traordlnnry about tho horso and nobody no-body locked upon him iff a rnccr. lint I'olndoxtcr look n nolloti that bo could run. Ho refused to drlvo Plsarm about. Itlchmoud hlLcliod to a bur;i,r On tho ilny that ho was ndrortlMd to appear on the track n j;rcat crowd wm prosect and the excitement ran blah, for n food deal of money hud lou put up on other Iioikcs. To tho anlonikh-ment anlonikh-ment of cvcrybcKly 1'lr.nrro bdntoveiy horaoou the truck, and tho people went fulrly nlld. Jlob-lnlled I'liarru never ..ado much of a record. Ito won two or three racea nnd thun v.ont to ploeev I'or yearn aftorwnrd when noytliloif extraordinary happened In that Motion it was r.ald of It: "That boat Hob Tall." Wrier and Driver. |
