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had to race the pair course twice more with other newcomers like myself.
Lily high-tailed it off course toward Jim Bill Fletcher’s with Wilbur Shumate in hot pursuit.
While I lay face down checking movable or non-movable parts, Clifford Miller drove up, asked if I was all right, and promptly offered me a Scotch and water.
“So early in the morning?” I asked. Why argue. With shaky hand I took the drink. Two sips later, Wilbur returned with Lily in tow. He had followed her through a stream and over a coop into Fletcher’s, he said.
I tried to get back on and succeeded with effort and not just a little pain. Lily was still in high gear. I remembered a cliche along the lines of “I’d rather be a live coward than a dead hero” and promptly dismounted.
After all, the final fence offered additional real estate possibilities with an audience to boot.
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