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this point with myself when your timely telegram was received.
I saw Sunol at Terre Haute last June [not?] a quarter, [away?] within herself, on a heavy track, in 31.1/4. I then said to Orrin Hickok, in presence of Mr.Allen of Pittsfield and Mr. Hamlin of Buffalo, "I want to make one of my peculiar bets with you." He wanted to know what that was. I said, "I will give you a hundred dollar suit of clothes if you can mark nearer the time than I can than Sunol will make before the 1st of November." We both marked exactly the same figure, 2:09 - so that the "bet" was off; but I gained the point I had in view, namely, to ascertain what Hickok thought of the mare's speed. I still think