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North Ontario Observer (Port Perry), 30 Jan 1890, p. 1

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£4" MORTGAGES ge : 4 W HUBERT L. EBBELS, "Barrister. + "Office next to Ontario Bunk: ~~ Port Perry, May 10, 1885; . EDMETT, ock, | Fee, Livk Axp ACCIDENT, *) Norraery- Assunanck Co'v, PHEGNIX | ASSURANCE CO'Y... Crrizens' Insumance Co'y. Grasuow & Loox INSURANCE Cox Port Derry,' April 26, 1880, : and Nowe Bets of Vidor HOLT » __ |Licensed Auptioneers 10 $76. EACH SET. FOR THE SOUT ox nase AND . ust pure of TOWNSHIP OF CAl IGHT. EISELE TONITE | Valustors. &0, &0. : Come and see. [Rooms over | REAL ESTATE A SPECIALTY. COTTINGHAM, |e DENTIST: coor ABLISHED 'Manchester, where parties can make: ar: / J euts' for sales. Acs in solicited. | at Yor ber BE oy tor: ; éomiortable and 2 reer a ester: give. mee call. hi LA pl howt| gym. GORDON, © 7 Licensed Auctioneer, Yaluator dc. many others of the aumeand thst hie wasall fn all to] never kuew. dhierihied' the feeling 'for months--yes years gratify it, The gerson on 10 wreak my vengence or whom I had ridden w how. ' I had waited him, seemed | rall, May me 'then. His playful little neigh of| * On we flew,the very earth trenibling recognition 'was a better assurance|and resounding 'beneath 'the "wiighty thon any other that 'he would do bis | strides of the now thoroughly aroused] utniost for me. 4 horses, ; Graduwlly 1 became less con' _Onressing and talking I remdined by fused, though my excitenfeit grew his side until the grooms appeared to | more and more intense. I wad still a |- unity, for I cel Te olig 2 ire in equip hit for the track. Twas loth | little behind as we rushed down the He id om % ; re Y | to let him go even then, for there was | back stretch ; then inch by inch Ran- wie! Then turning to the had brother, that I loved 8 well as others who have jighier niche on the secial le Will, that's what I}eo0 epi breed « him, though the others I used more like nb tolling what means might be em. |dall advanced to the flankiof the gray child he shouted : "What's the matter ployed to make sure that he'would not | mare on his left ; we went around the | YOU 8 tor ! win; there was twenty times more | next pole with no change, every horse 'Can't get down money on his losing than would buy | panting and steaming with the effort, 'Crawl down V' No whip, no spur had I touched: my Can't, * Tt was tithe' 'to mount. All about | beauty's side ; lie was but little used 'Climb down I tell you I' to o the stables was confusion, Horsemen |to either, and from me had never re- Darsen't climb down." y a father | yore i : = : i gathered in groups, talking | ceived a ing but st: Goddart reached for the liorsew fan a brother, bo was 80| earnestly on the 'probabilities "of the uy Seoiug bab ston stuf 3 cued ; to think be ought | yee, some referring to tablets to see lock Jee wed 1 Just how much they had ventured on ie eir favorites: Grooms were hurying © track just as well as any [hither and thither with blankets on better, for when he was in | their arms and pails in their hands ; a y hey would, it seemed like, | small army of jockeys engaged in a every nerve just to please : him. | aniinated criticism of their fellows who wen the horses loved him.-- {were to ride the great race ; while ! occasionally some devotee of the affectionate; they couldn't | ang os of the Se ft And I reckon thut's one | axcited than the rest, would. rush up ] why I was kinder to him than|;, a, instant to enquire after the havebeen had he been a rough | condition of his favorite. . Another When I think about | gekced about the mder, while others, with a knowing wink inquired if everything waa 'all right,' T ceyn: Tod 7 ns we'd make about keeping} nin money to back them. front bud company till we'd get| yqaoers of money or "what not: were ow we'd resolve to be honest freely taken. Even the little urchins ys toour employer, and not let| that fought each other for places ybodody or anybody 's. money come | oround the rails, hazarded their nickels veen us and him ; how we used to} 414 dimes on the red cap or the buff the horses together till they all jacket. w us and understood our voices|" About the bookmakers' offices the most us well us we did ourselves. excitement was at fever heat. Men But that was all changed--changed | oo wded and pushed and elbowed their a moment of passion by the man wel yay to get a glimpse of the latest | served so faithfully-~the man for! gorings, and here and there the pm we had won laurels and fortune | opterprising sharper would buttonhole l whose confidence had never been | hig prey, and allure him with the offer ken or betrayed, and whose' com- | of g straight tip! Old rounders eyed ads had never been disregarded. | their tickets as narrowly aud with as One day Willie loat a race--one that| puch delight as a child with a new Wharton, our employer, had set toy. Young men that had never be heart on winuing. Hehad al} go oered a cont eagerly asked for won it when his horse stumbled takers against the favorite, an 1 money went down. Mr. Wharton was flowed as freely as water. rious. Allin a passion he ran to Suddenly there was a moment : of oh. he vo lo hs 3 ap, gad 19 silence then a Waving of hats and a 4h a 2 EE hou hig flattering of handkerchiefs, followed Ba biow and the shock of the bt A by a shout that echoed again and again ® wuch for him, and it was sok through the neighboring fields and 2 oods v hours before he passed awa, toh a 3 f The horses has appeared on the "his home among the white steeds J eaven. He never recognized any track down the stretch they came to- us, and passed away like he 'whs | ward the stand to receive their places to sleep. from the judges, with jockeys sitting Cwas to Le avenged. as gracefully and firmly as though a » > * part of the avimals themsolves.-- Jast the time: had come. Tiver| Another thunder of applause as the that awful day I remaived with | announcements were made. Thirteen awaiting the day | horses to start, and every one of them 'the the wind, the perfection of ning, their long, sin % with Saxe rriament at ----, wud the} Ran 11: was on to be the greatest of | Thousan of dollars were behind him neck with my open hand or a few vouchsafiug - ouly these words to" the words of encouragement. © | appeal of his wife : dd 7 Steady, boy {toads ows as we, TEthst young one hes Foes ti : neared the home stretch on the first John Godard's blood in' him hell "get : balf. Thad been watching my oppor- down out of that himself." 0 The tunity, and now &s we" rushed dows The child, nerved to desperation by to the front of the stand. T dexterously several outs from the whip, frantically dropped behind a few paces, and, attempted to scramble down from his wheeling Randall 'accross the fleeing perch, and catching his 'foatu) the flanks of the five or six that had kept wheel, fell to the earth with a broken the leading place, placed him at the leg pole a length behind the superb sorrel, But Goddard did not flinch. Lady Rose, who had kept-lier lead all the way round. To Our Subscribers. The race had but fairly begun; the| The SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Which last half Was to tell the tale ; as we |appenred in" our colutans some time crossed the wire not a'Shoutcame from Kinos, dunoungip 8, x, pocial oH ment with Dr. B, J, ALL Co., of the thousands of throats that belonged | Enoslurgh Falls, Vt., publishers-of ndd Of eyed that were | CA Horse is Di os. For. | eases, bs : 5% s wud : .would he.fuil#. No, it ¢ limited ks on Bending low in the saddle, I gently i A poet Te y patted his vein-covered neck. lover of the Horse it is indespensab % 'Now, Randall, now I as it treats in a simple manner all the Instantly the intelligent anil responded to my voice, With leap after leap--leaps that seemed to 80 | standard authority. Mention this pap- ¢[ will not fail'--he gained the side of | or when sending jor "Treatise." the sorrell. Another and another and ee ett he was_at neck. Now the breath of Belinda--I think that Mr. Jenk his red nostrils hissed and struggled your fiance, is too lovely for anything. with the breath from hers. Another What soulful eyes he has! Mabek-- d his head was in the light. -- Yes ; but, my dear, you dou't really Then again I spoke. know Alfred until you hear him read. 'Faster, Rondall, faster I poetry. Belinda--How delightfully As 'if understanding * the very romant'c | What business » he hy ! thoughts that burned my brain, he re- Mabel Hejg in a wholesale lides snd pelts establishment. ¢ doubled his efforts. = Never a spur, never a cut from whip, but'only a few earnest words and a few taps on the steaming neck. 1 turned in my saddle and saw the flaming nostrils of the leap aun My friend,' said a minister to a working man, 'I really cannot under- take to baptize your child, as you do not understand the nature of baptism.' gray and sorel tAwecl' I dinua think it'll matter ; 9) much,' said the man, not a whit" put in gi Re hs tad out, 'there's Jock Henderson's 'weans, ow, we are clearly 1 | :ust as stoot weans as I've seen aboot, Randalls tail is fluttering in the face Hi doors; and there's no ane o Olen of his enemies. The wire is only a few bapteezed.' wd yards "off. Will he fail? No the TRCO'ls ous. A crate of Strawberries raise But what 'will John Wharton say-- | the open air, near Charleston, S. Yes, what will he say? What will | on its way to New York, 'wheré "the the people say! * Ali! T'kmow what berries win wall i gins w: aflur thoy ill say. 1 béariit already, a|aPioe 10 PO oo the fest; ; oy of adi thie 7 A ofr sy thut they ate the mv he echoes of heaven comes'to "meas we | es a Lieu by. Yes what will-John 'Whar-| SC aann igeoplassny' and as he pranced and guivered under] bese T thought again and again : "TI time has come---- will he be equal to it?

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