"'Ah don't feel qualified to answer yoh question, suh,' he says. 'Ah
believe the blind pursuit and worship of riches is almost entirely
responsible. It has bred a shallowness and superficiality in and
towahds the finah things of life. But the historian will answer yoh
question at a later day. He can bring a calmness to the task which is
impossible to one surrounded and bewildered by it all.'
"I ain't any wiser'n I was, but I don't say nothin'. The old man acts
like he's studyin' about somethin'.
"'Who owns the hawss that just trialed three-quahtahs in fohteen?' he
says, after while.
"'Jim Sigsbee up at Cynthiana,' I says.
"'Is Mr. Sigsbee awaheh of the--method you pursue with regahd to
falsely stimulating his hawss?' says ole man Sanford.
"'Well, I guess yes!' I says. 'Jim won't bet a dollar on him unless
he's got the hop in him.'
"'Ah shall write to him,' says ole man Sanford, 'n' beats it down the
track toward the gates.
"I don't see him fur over a week. I figger he's sore at me fur dopin'
hosses. It's a funny thing but, I'm a son-of-a-gun if I don't miss the
ole duck. From the way they talk I see the boys kind-a miss him, too.
"'I wonder where ole Pierpont's at?' I hears Chick say to Skinny.
'Gone East to see one of his hosses prepped fur the Brooklyn, I guess.'
"'Naw,' says Skinny; 'you got that wrong. He's goin' to send a stable
to Urope, 'n' Todd Sloan's tryin' to get a contrac' from him as
exercise-boy.
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