CHAPTER II.
THE PACER’S FAST DEVELOPMENT.

De Record’s Gwine Down.

De pat’idge is in de cohn-field, his courtin’ days am pas’,

He am waitin’ fur de hunter wid his gun and whiky flas’,

De squirl’s in de hickernut, de shell am droppin’ ’roun’,

But de pacer’s still de racer, and

de

record’s

gwine

down!