The Conshohocken Recorder, March 23, 1894

              THE RECORDER.
NO. 1354. CONSHOHOCKEN, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1894. SI.00 PER YEAR
A Little I'flli-r'a Sunday..
S.iv, Sii i. ■!!»' (ur a littlo feller,
W*iIli i»<»i> ami in.un u-mttlln all the while.
An never uo In M.\ t in : in oheer ><•,
An lookln '■ if ilirj don't know how tounll*.
With hook an line k-hangln In the woodshed,
An lota "' lor IU down bj il'»' ouuridc collar.
, .iu-t over by the mllld.p—
Suy, Btrodaj '■ loiraaome fur a little felUl.
BntSu I er lonesome far ■> little feller
a dnw ii in Uncle I
He took I oul ni ii"- orchard
An told 111 '.'■ i b i - Jtut lota o' -i n
All trulj in:., that happened onot fur honest,
An uur 'boul li ■ ii.ir.
An lim. K>meangi I their mouths
up,
Aii how tin■. II i r tecLed that Dan'l teller.
An Sunday'a j leaeant down toAnnl afarllda's.
bin : tome books that some one
gin her,
An takes ns .'nun to Sunday sonool 't the
icni
An i nice shortcake fur
dinner,
An OIH ! i poddia full»' raisins,
An i>m i a fro ited osvke ail white an yeller,
I think, \\ hen I Stay down to Aunt Manilla's,
Tlrnt Sunday's pleasant far ■ little feller.
Mil hlgan Christian Advocate,
Cui.l.nw.il from last ir,,lc.
A Fortune on Four Lcxrs.
■•\\ ii 'i r , yi.u tiii-ik of liim?" I nak-ed
of myfriend as we watched Brilliuiu
romping i !i i tho upper BtnU-h of the
gallop. The i olt wasfresh and incliin il
to play, yi t (!ul not appeal to pull over
hard ond i emed easy to ride. Itbought
him it splendid goer, mid visions of As-cot
and Goodwood floated lieforo my
eyes, r.-ith Ella arrayed in dark blue
and): . uncle's colors—watching
mo ca l l il in the winner of the cap
niniil the cl rsof the applandlng mnl-tituil-.
l ! Natty cruelly dampened
my ardor with the disparaging com-ment:
"S . in-! |i, have a good mouth, and 1
shouiii think a pleasant bone to ride—
ought to make a good looking second
charger for you some day, with a chance
of winning a military steeplechase, if
you can teach him to jump."
S.i much for Ascot! At that moment
I wished I had brought one of my
brother officers in place of Nat. Be-fore,
however, I had time to contro-
Natty paid no attention to this remark.
vert, after the manner of mankind, the
opinion I bad been at so much pains to
secure, the horses were round again, and
the marc, who had been going unkind-ly
all the time, now swerved and then
stopped, refusing to pass the wicket
which led bnck to tho boxes. In vain
the lad orgi 1 her. She showed temper
and lash I out.
"Get off, my lad," said Natty, and
took the boy's place in tho saddle.
How ho managed it I don't know, but
somehow be succeeded, though a total
stranger to her, in getting the jade un-der
way again, and she certainly went
much better in his hands.
"A <;ui' -r tempered one," Pnrkisssaid
sho was. The inaro had shown some
speed at the Uginning of the preceding
season and bad won an unimportant race
or two. but after that she had trained
off, and he, Purkiss, did not think she
would ever run straight again.
"What did yon say she was by, and
what name did she run under?" Nat in-quired
carelessly when he had dis-mounted.
"By Gamester, ont of Anonyms, sir,
and master called her Skittles."
"Not bad blood that. Gamester was
a good horse, and the dam was a yery
Well bred one."
"Yes, sir, but the mare don't seem
to sort after one nor t'other of 'em.
Bhe's a bad doer and a bad temper, and
I don't believe as she'll ever do any-thing,
sir."
"Perhaps not. Yon like the colt bet-ter,
then, Purkiss?"
"I do, sir—a deal better. He's quite
another stamp, is Brilliant. They ain't
to be named in the same day."
"I fancy you are right there."
After this Natty said nothing more
about the horses until we were on our
Way home. Then, as we lighted our
cigars while waiting for his train at
Templeton, I said: "I see you don't
think much of my legacy, Nat. I sup-pose
you advise me to sell both the
horses, together with the brood mares,
for what tin y will fetch?"
"I don't ndviso anything of tho sort.
If you get a good offer for tho colt, yon
might sell him, but the mare I should
Certainly keep."
"What fur? Because no one would
give anything for her?"
"No, because you might make a good
thing out of bur. She's a flier."
"Nonsense!"
"Fact."
"You are snroly chaffing me. Bril-liant
is worth 20 of her."
"To look well on parade, yes. For
facing I should say the mare was worth
tO of him."
I never was more astonished in my
Ufa. I demanded what in the world In
"1 will try to explain," said Nut,
coolly puffing his cigar, "tout yen musl
IMI a perlect child in horseflesh, George,
not to see it for yourself. I grant you
tho colt is a good looking one, well top-pi
il. and so on, but he's too wide in the
chest ever to bo a real fast one and
don't move with any freedom —can't
strido over a straw, ill fact. Didn't
you see how the mare overhauled him
When I got on her back? Now, she's
all over a raoe horse, made like a grey
bound, high behind, well ribbed up,
but not too close for her big hind quar-ters
to have free piny, light muscular
forehand, good shoulders and deep
girth.with wi ar and tear looking joint!
and lar | el i no for a thoroughbred. I'll
bet you that inaro can both gallop and
stay when in condition."
"But she won't gallop a yard and is
evidently a regular jade. You heard
what Purkiss said?"
"I did and perceived how littlo ho
knew. The fact is, Purkiss has done
his best to ruin tho mare. Ho has over-done
her lioth with corn and work.
What sho wants la a couple of months'
I rest, With some nice green food. The
natural juices of fresh graSBl S or clover
will renovate tho tone of her Btomach
and restore her health, so that when
sho is put In training again her temper
will bo much improved, and you will
find her go in nuito different stylo. She
looks cut in two now, but you won't
know her again in the autumn if you
follow my advice."
"Upon my word, I think 1 will—at
least it is certain I should get nothing
for her now."
There were more horses spoiled, Nat
assured me, 1 y overtraining than own-ers
had any idea of. In his opinion, the
natural powers of moro than half tho
horses running were lessened in this
way. Trainers had not sufficient edu-cation,
and in consequence thero was a
want of elasticity h) their system. To
overtrain was tho tendency of tho age.
Tho competition for tho moro valuable
prizes was so keen that the trainer was
overfearful of sending a nag to the
post on what he would call tho big
side, forgetting, or more probably not
knowing, that a largo proportion of the
highly bred horses of tho day run bet-ter
in that condition than when drawn
too fine. My mare, he said, was of a
constitution which required compara-tively
little work to make her fit. Horses
varied in their temperament as much
as human beings, and the work which
a greedy, hearty horse like Brilliant re-quired
and the corn he could assimilate
with ease would be enough to upset the
freer and moro nervous temperament of
the mare.
Much more Natty said to the same
purpose, and perceiving that he had
studied the veterinary science of the
subject to some effect I thought I could
not do better than place the manage-ment
of my little stud in his hands,
which I did then and there. It was de-cided
to give both the horses a couple of
months' holiday at Stockwood before
its new owner took possession, and then
send them to a smaller trainer on the
Dorset downs, where they would bo un-der
Natty's occasional supervision.
Parkin took a situation as coachman
to an old lady, whero Nat thought he
would bo moro in bis element. The
v I man a were to be sent tip for sale
as soon ns opportunity offered.
CHAPTER III.
It took mo nil my time to persuade
my mother that I was not going to ruin
myself on tho turf. I bad to mako out
that it would bo impossiblo to realize
tho true valuo of tho horses or indcxl
to ascertain it without a public trial
In!. ie r-ln- would hear of my running
them. Her theory—instilled Into her
mind by my dear tuicle. who had him-self
been a victim of tho same doctrine
—was that In no way could racing be
m t: • to ] iy < sot pt by betting. Natty
gii ucd when 1 mentioned this to him.
II • . i.l it was a fatal delusion, the ex-act
opposite being really the case, and
eil 1 i stances which showed that the
only regular winners were those who
did not bet. while all who backed their
fancy for each race inevitably came to
grief sooner or later. You must not ex-pect,
he said, to win largely unless you
were a great owner of a first class stud,
like Lord Tregothnan or the Duke of
Eastminster, whose winnings in simple
stakes would often amount to from
£12,000 to £40,000 a year, but there
was nothing to prevent a man, with
a small stud containing a good horse
or two, from winning in a proportion-ally
small way. Thus ho showed me
how with a stud, the training expenses
of which would amount only to hun-dreds,
a thousand or two per annum,
taking one year with another, might be
realized without betting by one who
i thoroughly understood the capacities of
his own horses and how to race them.
| "Give mo," said Nat, "a couple of
j nags as good as your inaro and £1,000
capital, and I'd undertake to show you a
satisfactory balance sheet at tho end of
1 throo years without booking u single
bet. Btaki s are so good now that a soli-tary
win will often pay tho training bill
of half a dozen horses and leave some-thing
in hand to go on with."
"Why, then, do not more owners do
it?" I naturally asked.
"BeiMiise they nro duffers," Nat mi
swered promptly, "and because the*
who do know F-omothing about it ai
never content with a reasonable profit
on their money invested. Did you
ever know a racing man satisfied with
io or t-von zu per cent on ms otitia.. .
Doesn't he Invariably curso his luck if
ho gets less than cent per cent whenever
ho happens to win? Betting ruins rac-ing
iu more ways than one."
All this was reassuring to me, but
not oven Natty's ingenious talk when
ho camo down to Bournemouth could
prevail with the mater. She said [was
my own master and must do aa I pleased,
but she should not help me with a pen-ny,
whatever difficulty I got into—
which indeed I neither expected nor
desired her to do. Gernldine, on the
other hand, was much impressed by
Natty's knowledge, and after his visit
looked on her furs as good as won.
I, however, was by no means san-guine.
I could hardly believe that Pur-kiss,
in whom my uncle placed so much
confidence, could have been such a
duffer as Nat made him out, and 1
could not divest myself of tho idea that
Brilliant would prove tho better of the
pair. I had now quito decided to run
them, at any rate, for one racing season
and see how I got on. A strict investi-gation
of my financial position told me
I was justified in doing so much as this.
The horses, roughly speaking, would
cost mo £100 a year each to keep them
in training, and other expenses of entry
and jockeys' fees, traveling and so ou,
might run to £150 more. Against
this, tho two mares with their foals
fetched £860, so that 1 was about all
right for the first year. .My mother
wished me to put by this money for my
marriage expenses, but 1 saw that,
could 1 turn it to account in the way
Natty thought 1 could, it would consid-erably
expedite matters with the Choi-mondely-
Davenports. I knew the Rev.
Choliuoudely well i Hough to bo assured
that his real objection to turf specula-tions
would bo confined to such as were
not successful.
Ella was at this time staying with
somo friends at Bournemouth, and I saw
her every day. Pleasant days they were
Pleasant days they were to vs.
to ns, spent in long rides over the breezy
heather, varied by strolls through the
fragrant pines or along the calm shore
at eventide. Ella was by no means
averse to my trying my fortune on tho
turf in the way prescribed by Natty,
but stipulated there should be no bet-ting.
Sho said her father was some-what
better dispoe d toward mo since
hearing of my having inhi riteda legacy
from my uncle, but agreed with me ii
was better h" should not iii present be
informed of the character of that leg-acy,
of which, so far, he was entire].
ignorant.
"I believe, George," she said, "ho if
so incensed at Sir Wilfrid's doings in
that way that he would forbid me ev I
to speak to you again. He lias said 1..
will never give mo a shilling if I marry
without his consent."
Then these horses, I declared, mosl
win us enough to do without the shil-ling,
but I was far from sanguine in
my own heart of their being able to do
so.
So passed the summer away, not un-pleasantly,
with a little loveinakingand
a good deal of regimental cricket, while
as for work—generally it must be ad-mitted
a matter of secondary impor-tance,
or no importance at all, with our
fellows—I took a great interest in my
troop, for I had entered the army as a
profession, and it was my ambition to
know my work.
In the autumn I was again at Bourne-mouth
on a few days' leave, and Ella,
having contrived to be there at the same
time, and tho horses being now report-ed
fit to be tried, we chartered a wag-onette
to drive over and see them, Ger-aldine
and Ella, Natty Forwood and I.
The mater utterly refused to lend her
countenance to any turf proceedings
whatever, so Mrs. Fits Travers, Ella's
friend, camo with us as a chaperon to
the girls. And what a drive we had,
along the banks of the winding Stour,
reflecting the twin towers of Wimborne
Minster, and on through the ancient
town of Blandford Forum and then up
over the rolling dowiw, the women ani-mated
by tlf% strong, sweet air, and
Natty on tho box, full of fun, inter
changing sharp repartees with Geral-dine,
in which they made such shrewd
hits at one another that I thought it
must be a case of Benedick and Bon
trice, so thorough appeared their con
tempt for each Other's opinions. Thi n
tho putting up at a wayside inn, .with
the Improvised luncheon of bam and
eggs, re-enforced by tho contents of tbi
hamper which the mater had thought
fnllv caused to be nlaced in the boot o<
cue carnage bow Natty and i did en-joy
the horns of Dorsetshire ale, the
best, we owned, that wi had drunk since
leaving (Izford.
Luncheon over, we walked across the
short, springy turf to the stables, where
we found P aroe, the trainer, awaiting
our arrival. A very good ■ ort of fellow
he appeared. None ol your grand gen-tlemen,
full of mystery and importance,
who will hardly let an owner look at
his own horse, far leas let him know
what tie I do, but a pleasant
looking, tnsh complexioned man ot
about 50, as honest as PurkiSS, but a
deal shrewder. Taking Natty and me
aside, he told as that be proposed to try
both the horses with one he had there
of a fair class, which had latelv won a
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