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    Bred In The Bone 1908
    Bred In The Bone 1908
    Bred In The Bone 1908
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    Bred In The Bone 1908

    By Thomas Nelson Page

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Bred In The Bone 1908
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    Thomas Nelson Page

    Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family’s wealthy lineage—both the Nelson and Page families were First Families of Virginia—Page was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page’s writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page’s best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story “Marse Chan.” Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.

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      Bred In The Bone 1908 - Thomas Nelson Page

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      Title: Bred In The Bone

             1908

      Author: Thomas Nelson Page

      Release Date: November 16, 2007 [EBook #23516]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRED IN THE BONE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      BRED IN THE BONE

      Thomas Nelson Page

      Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1908

      Copyright, 1891, 1904, 1906

      Contents

      I

      It was the afternoon before the closing day of the spring meeting of the old Jockey Club that so many people know. The next day was to be the greatest ever known on that course; the Spring Meeting was to go out in a blaze of glory. As to this everybody in sight this spring afternoon was agreed; and the motley crowd that a little before sunset stood clustered within the big white-painted gate of the grounds about the Jockey Club race-stables rarely agreed as to anything. From the existence of the Deity to the effect of a blister on a windgall, through the whole range of stable-thought and horse-talk, there was no subject, speaking generally, on which that mongrel population agreed, except, of course, on one thing—the universal desirability of whiskey. On this one subject they all agreed, always.

      Yet they were now all of one mind on the fact that the next day was to be the record on that course. In the first place, the prize in the great over-night event, the steeplechase set for the morrow, was the biggest ever offered by the club, and the cracks drawn together for the occasion were the best ever collected at a meeting on that course.

      Even such noted steeplechasers as Mr. Galloper's Swallow, Colonel Snowden's Hurricane, and Tim Rickett's Carrier Pigeon, which had international reputations, were on hand for it, and had been sent over the sticks every morning for a week in hopes of carrying off such a prize.

      There was, however, one other reason for the unwonted unanimity. Old Man Robin—Col-onel-Theodoric-Johnston's-Robin-suh—said it was to be the biggest day that was ever seen on that track, and in the memory of the oldest stable-boss old Robin had never admitted that any race of the present could be as great, within a thousand miles, as the races he used to attend befo' de wah, when hosses ran all de way from Philidelphy to New Orleans. Evil-minded stable-men and boys who had no minds—only evil—laid snares and trapfalls for Colonel Theodoric Johnston's Robin, of Bull-field, suh, as he loved to style himself, to trip him and inveigle him into admissions that something was as good now as before the war; but they had never succeeded. The gang had followed him to the gate, where he had been going off and on all the afternoon, and were at their mischief now while he was looking somewhat anxiously out up the parched and yellow dusty road.

      Well, I guess freedom 's better 'n befo' d' wah? hazarded one of his tormentors, a hatchet-faced, yellow stable-boy with a loud, sharp voice. He burst into a strident guffaw.

      Maybe, you does, growled Robin. He edged off, rubbing his ear. Befo' de wah you 'd be mindin' hawgs—what you ought to be doin' now, stidder losin' races an' spilin' somebody's hosses, mekin' out you kin ride. A shout of approving derision greeted this retort.

      Old Robin was a man of note on that circuit. It was the canon of that crowd to boast one's self better than everyone else in everything, but Robin was allowed to be second only to the speaker and the superior of everyone else with a unanimity which had its precedent only after Salamis.

      Robin had been head of

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