isa-normaladvance-1914-00200

Description:	200THE NORMAL ADVANCEfor winning the race for it occurred to me that it might be dangerous to have the ill-will of her people while living alone. But on second thought I felt that if Golddust could win I should hate dreadfully to have her defeated so when the signal was given I gave her the reins and with a leap and a bound she was ahead.This time I had more confidence and when Golddust got several paces ahead I looked over my shoulder and saw my opponent desper¬ately lashing her horse. Oh! what joy I felt when it was ended and Golddust again ahead.It was a hilarious crowd that returned to the store and as the Indians turned to leave us they made every excuse imaginable for their horse. Just as the echoes of their voices died away one little Indian boy piped up: I am going to bring a grain fed pony over next week to race with you.But next week never came.There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.— Emerson.
Source:	http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32664
Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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