The Old Man sat in his old armchair
With Tabs on his ears and soot in his hair
And he winked, and he said with a comical air:
"She'll win in a walk, by Judas,"
If that irreverent but optimistic curmudgeon famed in race-track ballad has now attained the age of 100, he was a stripling of 25 when the first issue of Harper's Magazine was published. If it is a fact, as some aver, that his quaint prophesy concerned, not the speed of a horse, but the future of that publication, he has been...
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