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Mr- .S'tmeon Staples
“I Had a Running Sore
On my ankle five years, the doctors pronouncing
It salt rheum. Itcontinued to increase in size.
‘untilI commenced taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
Hood’ neares-
nnd using Hood’s Olive Ointment. At the end
of two years I was completely cured and have
had no trouble with it since.” SIMEON
STAPLES, East Taunton, Mass. Get Hood’s.
o d’s'Pills cure liver ills .jaundlce,bil~
toysneoss. sick headache and constipation. 250.
frocks 2,.
Goose.
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[Com-right, 1893, by
' -the Author.)
M/ IIOROUGHBRED
. from your nose
K to your tail, and
\\
\ I],
\ql, with legs as
\ sound to all out-
ward appearance as a bell of brass; as
quite as a sheep, too, apparently. I
wonder how the deuce you came to be
harnessed to a hansom cab!”
These were the thoughts that ran
hrough my mind one fine October after-
noon. as, having just finished luncheon
at the Navy and Military, I found my-
self in Piccadilly strolling aimlessly
along, and gazing at a. remarkably
good~looking, little brown horse be-
tween the shafts of a very smart han-
som, who walked past me in the easy,
dignified way that only athoroughbred
can. I had been among horses all my
life, and flattered myself I knew a good
one when I saw him.
“And unless you are very much mis-
taken, my boy," thought I to myself,
“you’re looking at one now.” The
sight of the little brown horse quite
‘fascinated me, in fact.
The cabman, a smart-looking chap,
attired In a very “down-the-road” box
coat. seeing me look his way, pulled up,
with the inquiry: “Hansom, sir?"
I jumped in without a word; not that
I wanted to go anywhere in particular,
but because I could not tear myself
away from the little brown horse. It
ended in my driving about the whole of
the afternoon from one place to
another, and thus I had a good oppor-
tunity of seeing what the little nag
was made of. Ilis trotting action, was
like that of many thoroughbred bnes,
not particularly good, but he was a de-
lightful horse to sit behind, for he
never looked to the right nor left. but
wont steadily on in as old-fashioned a
way as it was possible to conceive. I
don’t believe a traction engine even
would have ruffled his serenity of tem-
pcrament.
“That’s a nice horse of yours,” said
I, addressing the cabman on alighting
at my rooms in Bury street. “What’s
his fault? I suppose he’s got one,
hasn’t he?"
“Fault?” exclaimed my charioteer,
scornfully, descending from his perch
and patting the little brown horse af-
fectionately. “Fault? Why, bless yer,
he don’t know how to spell it, this
little horse don’t. I don’t werily be-
lieve he never done nothing wrong in
’is bloomin’ life, ’ave yer, my lad? I’ve
drove ’im,” continued cabby, “gettin’ on
now for six weeks, and he’s never be-
’aved any different to wet you’ve seen
’im. He looked wery different, though,
when I fust ’ad ’im. Where did I get
’im? Why, I bought ’im of a pal who
was ’ard up and couldn’t afiord to keep
’im properly, and he was a reg’lar bag
0’ bones, bless yer, in consekence. He
soon picked up, though, as yer see, and
I wouldn’t take fifty Of anybody’s
money for ’im now.”
Well, the upshot of the whole busi-
ness was that after a quarter of an
hour’s haggling and bargaining the
little brown nag became my property
for the consideration of fifty-two
pounds, ten shillings, an old hat and a
bottle of whisky. -
The very next day I clapped a ,saddle
ou the back of. my new purchase and
rode him in the Row—which celebrated
ride I need scarcely say I had nearly to
myself—the verdict after I had put him
through all his paces being that he was
one of the very best hacks that I had
ever ridden.
“If you can only jump, my beauty,”
I thought to self as I gave the little
nag an approvmg slap on the neck-a
compliment he seemed quite to appre-
ciate—“we’ll bustle some of ’em up
between the flags as soon as steeple-
chasing sets in in earnest, see if we
don’t.”
That night I dreamt I won the Grand
National on him.
I was not happy now until I had
“Come by Chance," as I had christened
him, down in the country. -
Accordingly a few days afterwards I
took him along with me to a hunting-
box I rented down in Buckingham-
shire.
In a large field behind the house were
several artificial jumps of all sorts for
my'horse to practice over, and hither
the morning after my arrive} I brought
“Come by Chance” to see what he was
made of. '
With my groom on my best hunter to
»give him a lead away we went, now
over the gorsed hurdles, next the post
and rails and then the water jump—
WEEKYL N on. W Ann - G AZ’E TT E ‘
.B.HALL&CO,
33‘3“ big on‘e. "certainly.“ bilt’a“ were:
jump for all that.
“Come by Cha nee,” to my delight
liked the fun just as much as I did, and,
never put a foot wrong, thereby caus-
ing my man, who had had a. good deal
of experience with - steeplechasers
when he saw how the little horse
pricked his ears and laid down his bit
in approaching his fences, to remark
that in his opinion “the little brown
’oss had been at the game before, or he
was much mistook.”
“So much the better,” thought I, as I
rode him triumphantly back to the
.. stables.
Long was the confab betwixt myself
and the groom that afternoon as to
the future career of “Come by Chance,”
with the result that we decided at last
to give the little nag a fortnight’s rest
or so and then put him in training with
a. view to winning the Tally-ho steeple-
chase at Sandown in December, acon-
tingency my groom was pleased to say
was a moral if the horse only kept
well.
The programme we had mapped out
for my new purchase in horseflesh wm
carried out to the letter, the result be-
ing that when the day arrived for him
to be boxed for Sundown it found
“Come by Chance” fit to run for a king-
dom, and myself and groom brimful of
confidence. _
Entered as Mr. Somerfield‘s bay geld-
"ing, “Come by Cha nce” (aged), pedigrqe
unknown, the handicapper had let him
in with only 10 st. 7 lbs., and, with a,
first-rate jockey engaged to ride, I
might as well be excused for looking
upon the Tally- lO steeplechase as al-
ready in my pocket. Mine being a. dark
horse, too, and trained privately, and
nothing consequently being known
about him, I should doubtless be
enabled to get good odds about him at
the post; another advantage I was look-
ing forward to with a good deal of
pleasure, you may depend.
Yes, I was a proud man, I can tell
you, that December morning, when ac-
companied by a few chosen friends, all
in the “know,” and in high spirits at
getting on a real “good thing,” as they
termed it, at along price, we started
from the club in a succession of cabs
bound to Waterloo station en route to
Sandown.
“’hcn I thought, too. of the open-
hearted way I had imparted the secret
to everybody I knew, from my own per-
sonal friends down to the landlord at
my lodging.. and ..the servants at the
club, I felt quite a philanthropist.
There should be no coming up to me
with reproachful looks, and “I say. old
chappie, I do think you might have put
an old friend on to the ‘good thing,’
’pon my soul I do.” Of that I was de-
termined. There E nothing mean or
selfish about me, thank goodness! Oh
dear, no.
Arrived at Sundown, we first of all
proceeded in a body-to the paddock,
where I introduced my friends to “Come
by Chance,” who, with a stable boy on
' his back and led by my groom, was
walking round and round in his accus-
tomed, Old-fashioned manner. We then
made tracks for the stand.~
The Tally-ho steeplechase stood third
on the card, and it looked “healthy"
for our luck, as one of my friends re-
marked when we spotted the successive
winners of the two preceding events, a
selling steeplechase and a hunters’
hurdle.
We went in a body to the paddock to
see our horse saddled, in higher spirits
than ever. Alas! we little thought, as
chattering and laughing we passed
through the paddock gate, how uncere-
moniously our mirth was about to be
dispelled, and our joy turned to. woe.
We were met the moment we set foot
into the inclosure by little 0 apt. Coper
(quite the best of the soldiers), who
was to ride “Come by Chance,” with a
face as white nearly as the cap he
wore. '
“I say, old feller," he exclaimed,
rushing up, “there’s the devil to pay
over yonder.” pointing, as he spoke,
with his whip to the far end of the pad-
dock where my horse was.
“There’s a bucolic party,” he went
on, “swearing the horse is his, and so
far from being a maiden he’s Won half
the steeplcchases in England. He was
stolen from his place six months ago,
so he says, and—but there, for heaven’s
sake, come and see the cove yourself.
I don’t understand it, dashed if I do!”
As pale in the face by this time as
my poor little friend, Coper, 'I hurried
off, best pace. to learn the worst. Sure
enough, when I elbowed my way
through the crowd collected round my
horse, there was a stout, red-faced per-
son of horsey appearance, evidently in
a rabid state of excitement, haranguing
the lockers-on generally and my unhap-
py groom in particular in most aggres-
sive fashion.
“011! here you be at last then, be
you?” was his insolent greeting as I
came up.
“I am Mr. Somcrfield. if that’s what
you mean,” said I, loftily. “What
might you want?”
“Wot might I want? Haw—haw—
haw, that’s a good fun, too, that is!”
roared re’d face. ”Wot might I want,
indeed? Why, I want my ’oss, to be
sure—my ’05s, as was stolen six months
ago from my place near Barnet, where
he was turned out to grass—and wot’s
more, I mean to have him.”
“‘Come by Chance’ your horse?” I
stammered.
“To be sure he is,” was the confident
reply—“at least Barnacles is—that’s his
proper name. Here’s his description—
AGO."
see (pulling a handbill from his pocket)
andifo you, don’t ,choose 1;?) belieyeme.
B Read the GA2ETTR.
ask' any of The jockeys on tne'course:
they all knows him, bless you. as well
as they knows their own fathers.
“‘Come by Chance.’ indeed!” shouted
red-face, contemptuously. "It’s me as
should be called ‘Come by Chance,’ I
fancy, for it wafs only at the last minute
I made up my mind to come ’ere."
A-lasl lit was all true that he said,
and “Come by Chance,” late Barnacles.
was, of course. to the infinite chagrin
of all of us, ineligible to compete for
the Tally-ho steeplechase. I could not
make up my mind, however, to part
with the little horse, and I therefore
made overtures with the rough dia-
m’ond who owned him for his purchase.
It was only after a lavish use of all the
persuasive powers I had about me, and
the consumption of several bottles of
champagne, with one or two glasses of
brandy and water thrown in, that I at
last succeeded in effecting a deal.
Thoughlpaid what seemed a lot of
money for him, the little horse turned
out a real bargain in the long run, for
not only did he win me, ridden, by my
friend Tommy Coper, no end of races,
:but he succeeded last year in running
into a place for the Grand National. If
my sporting readers see “Come by
Chance, late Barnacles,” amongst the
entries for the Liverpool next M arch,
don’t forget to back him—for a “shop,"
at all events
ABOUT PERSONS OF NOTE.
SARASATE has had thirty-two watches
given him at various times, several in
the shape of violins.
MRs. ANNIE MOORE, president of a
national bank at Mount Pleasant, Tern,
is the only woman who fills such an of-
fice in the United States.
MR. GLADSTONE astonished some of
his auditors in the house of commons
the other night by using the word
“gumption,” yet who could employ it
more appropriately, seeing how much
of the quality the g. 0. m. possesses
himself?
MRS. SARAH B. COOPER, who organ-
ized the first kindergarten in San
Francisco in 1880, has received more
than three hundred thousand dollars to
enable her to carry on the work. There
are now sixty-five kindergarten schools
in that city.
PROF. PELLAT, of the Paris Sorbonnc,
has invented an apparatus for prevent-
ing collisions between trains. It con-
sists essentially of a band of traveling
paper, impregnated with iodine of
potassium. A platinum stylus moves
over this paper and leaves a blue mark
on the paper, as in the chemical tele-
graph of Rain. The motive current is
sent by. the train, which thus is made
to report its own exact position.
MISSING LINKS.
A MAN in Wisconsin is the possessor
of a curiosity in the shape of a horned
hog. .
IT is estimated that last year 1,285.-
000,000 bananas were consumed in the
United States alone.
THE United States has a lower per-
centage of blind people than any other
country infthe world.
NORTHAMPTON (England) people con-
sider it an omen of misfortune if three
butterflies are seen together. "’
FEMALE spiders are much larger and
more ferocious than the males, and
generally devour their husbands.
THE Lacrymoe Christi is a Portuguese
wine made‘from the juice which first
flows without pressure from the grapes.
THERE is ‘ a haunted tree at North
Searsport. Me., which shelters a spot
where a murder had been committed.
Moss has formed the initials “W. B.”
on the bark.
IN Westphalia and Saxony the un-
fortunate mortals ‘ who happen to be
beaten with a broomstick firmly be-
lieve themselves doomed to die of com
sumption.
THROUGH EUROPE.
SINCE the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second to
the fourth place in ‘point of population
among European countries.
THE Greek style of building, modi-
fied to ,modern needs, has been most
successfully used in Paris, where many
palaces are seen of this construction.
LAW in . England provides that no
person under eighteen years shall be
employed about a shop for more than
seventy—four hours, including meal
times, in any one week.
ACCORDING to the method which is
now adopted for reckoning leap years
in England December, January and
February will be the summer months
about 720,000 years hence.
DUELING in Russia has become so
common that the government has just
decreed a severe code of punishment.
Killing an antagonist will cost six
years in prison; severe wounding, three
years; duel without injury, six months;
provoking a duel, six weeks to three
months.
PEOPLE ACROSS THE SEA.
J OSEPII CHAMBERLAIN expects to visit
America again this fall.
PRINCE BISMARCK’S rheumatism is
still so acute that he is unable to leave
Kissingen.
M. CEAUVIN, the barber of the Thea-
tre Francois, has been elected to the
French assembly by a close shave.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be a skill-
ful knitter, and works at it indefati-
gably. She has knitted, with her la-
dies, many' quilts for the use of the
wounded in hospitals during the cam-
paigns of the British forces.
MR. GLADSTONE astonished some of
his auditors in the house of commons
the other night by using the word
“gumption,” yet who could employ it
more appropriately. seeing how much
of the quality the G. 0. M. possesses
himsolf? ‘
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