5/27 He's going to auction off them half dozen mares after the race. Well, sir, I wouldn't give fifty dollars a head for 'em. Nor neither will nobody else when they see them mares fade away in the home stretch; nope, neither will nobody else." In this reference to over-wise Easterners there was a direct thrust at the girl, but she accepted it with a smile. I know! Picture hosses like them--well, they'd ought to be left in books. |