. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-POUR PAGES. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. Good-Bye, OldiHorse. Good-by,poor old horse; on yonr hard, snowy pillow You sleep the last c f the true and the brave; You sleep just as sweet as if rosebush and willow Had furnished a wreath to embellish yonr grava. In the springtime of life, a viBion of beauty You pranced o'er the meadows and sprang o'er the leaB; In tbe strength of your youth performed your whole duty. Id the prime of your life endeavored to please. Ah ewift as the wild deer, with eyes brightl
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-POUR PAGES. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. Good-Bye, OldiHorse. Good-by,poor old horse; on yonr hard, snowy pillow You sleep the last c f the true and the brave; You sleep just as sweet as if rosebush and willow Had furnished a wreath to embellish yonr grava. In the springtime of life, a viBion of beauty You pranced o'er the meadows and sprang o'er the leaB; In tbe strength of your youth performed your whole duty. Id the prime of your life endeavored to please. Ah ewift as the wild deer, with eyes brightly glowing. How light were yonr footsteps t'H years Bwittlv came Like breath of tbe Frost King o'er tender plants blowing, To stlifenyour muscles and weaken yonr frame. When spring comes to 'waken the fields and the meadows You'll be lying there in the life-giving sun, Indifferent aliKe to Bunshlne and shadows, For now, and forever, your life's race is ran. But mauy long years will your bones lie and whiten 'Mid grass of the pasture you loved so to roam, E'er raiMfallB that sodden aud suj shineB that brighten Shall sweep your last trace from your one time loved home- Good-by, and may wild flowers wreathe your lonel pillow. And meadow larks sing you their songs every day; May the grass of the pasture, like a green billow, "Soon hide thy poor form in its waste and decay. —Jennie Watson, in Drover's Journal. THE P. C. T. H. B. A. MEETING. f»e Opening Day Has a Good Attendance- rank M. Throws Down Silas Skinner and Wanda—Hummer Wins tbe Pacing Race- . Goldsmi th walkover the Board of Directors had searched all through one 'b calendar for a balmy day, they could not have picked to beat last Saturday, although there was a cold wave r the track between the second and third races. The bill the day contained two stake events and two purse races. C the stakes but little can be said, as Vida Wilkea walked or for the three-year-old event, although Goldsmith let her R' along pretty
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