Show NM CLAYS HORSES the sorrel stallion which the kentucky statesman won at poker 1 I recollect henry clays claye turnout very well said an old re resident ident of washington lie ile had one of tho the old style concord buggies s with a top that suggested eug a mother hubbard boni bonnet tet it was evidently a second secondhand liand affair that mr clay had picked up in a trade and nowadays would do very well for an old woman to haul vegetables around town in the tile cushions were stuffed with moss and so well worn you could sec sea the moss sticking out at the sides ill bet henry clay know wh what wha A a lap robe wa wae and as for a whip he lie have any ho used to slash his old sorrel stallion with wide the enda euda of tho the reins so loud that you could hear it a block off the st step s of tho the buggy were gone and mr clay used to jump over the wheel when he lie wanted to get in he lie put one foot on oil the hub and swung C the other round over tl alic 1 0 wheel and dashboard the wheels whee I 1 s were so high he ile had to let the to top down to get out they lad axle grease in those days but mr clay had never found it ho ile always dhruv his horse at itt a canter and you could hear the wheel of buggy squeaking as many notes as there are on the pi piccolo decolo ah ali well do I 1 remember that sorrel st stallion allioD continued the old timer tinier henry clay won li 1 imone night at poker in john hancocks saloon which is still running on the avenue from colonel jim B bright ri ight alio N ho lived at falls church va bright used to come over every week and play poker with cla clay y and he lie generally went back to palls church with a pocketful of money but buto that wag was clays lucky night he got away with 1200 of brights money his watch saddle and bridle overcoat saddlebags a new now suit of clothes that were in the saddle fin finger finer er rings ring sanda and a breastpin breast pina pin a brace of pistols 0 and md a pair of boots oh you laugh said the old timer with great animation the way they played poker in them days A mati man went the whole hog or nothing why you never hear of tho the time henry clay bet himself clean down to his undershirt and ho he offered ered to pull that off but the other fellow wear an undershirt to put up against it well sir its so anyhow and the very table ho lie played the game on is is no now win in the front room up tip stairs over hancocke hancocks sa saloon 10 on ita its an old pine fable table about three feet square with a hole in tho the middle to drop the percentages percentage through g for threes three Q fulls fulli flushes and fack pots that old stallion ho ile was well known around washington for several years he lie alway always when clay came near him clay earned carried a pocketful of aliel shelled led corn and he be gave the horse a baud ful every time lie got into the buggy tho the boys knew the stallion well and they used to give him pieces of bread cake nuts or anything of tha the sort hed eat watermelon and meat and ive seen him eat wads of paper as ai though lie was trying to make the boys laugh C well sir air clay had bad a digger na named wed sam one day he loaned the stallion to sam to drive to alexandria sara sam got drunk before ho lie left town and lie started out on a it gallop ile stop till he lie got to mount vernon twelve miles off then he turned around and galloped all the way back the old stallion dropped dead at the edge of south washington there were over ove r boys rt the funeral in revenge clay sold the to a louisiana sugar sugars planter with a proviso in ill tile bill of sale that the planter should hitch sam in shafts and work him in a cane mill fact 1 1 sw 1 l do ii JU ft P 1 11 i |