On the bak stretch, “Dave” went at the mare with hiz long purswader; she trots like litening, she passes the hoss! no! she busts! she busts! and befour “Dave” cud flatten her down tew her work, she broke from the trak and trotted clean up tew her hips in the krambery mash. The hoss cum in awl alone, trotting fast, and so clus down, that 2 feet ov his tale dragged on the ground. Time ov this heat, not fur from 5 minnits, “Juise Harp” winning, bi a quarter ov a mile. Thus ended the grate rase at “Sulphur Flats.” I immejiately started on foot for “Jamaka Rum four corners,” bare headed, but fully impressed that, tho men, and even whiskee mite deteryoate, the breed ov hosses must begin tew improve in that seckshun ov the kuntry in a fu dais. BILLINGS LEXICON. Blush--The cream ov modesty. Ginger-pop--Gimnastik water. Man--Live dirt. Friends--Books, paintings, and stuft birds. Bashfullnes--Ignorance afraid. Conservatism--A bag with a hole to it. Radicalism--A hole with a bag to it. Aristocrat--A demokrat with hiz pockets filled. Politicks--The apology ov plunder. Tin watch--Faith without works. Mule--A bad pun on a horce. Patience--Faith waiting for a nibble. Sparking--Picking buds oph from the bush. Malice--A blind mule kicking by guess. Eternal--God’s epitaff. Care--Cat pizen. Faith--The soul riding anchor. Bliss--Happiness bileing over and running down both sides ov the pot. Marriage--An alter on whitch man lays hiz pocketbook and woman her luv letters. Quack--A doktor whoze science lays in hiz bill. Hash--A boarding-hous confidence game. Fuss--An old hen with one chicken. Twins--2 mutch. Boarding-School--A place whare wry coffee and flirtashun iz taught. Experiment--Energy out ov a job. Perfection--God in man. Virtue--That ingredient whitch needs no foil, and without whitch nothing else iz valuabel. Solitude--A good place tew visit, but a poor place tew stay. Sloth--Life in a tomb. Health--A call loan. Memory--The shadow that the soul casts. Politeness--Sixty day paper. Poverty--The only birthright that a man kant lose. Accidents--The dismay ov phools, the wize man’s barometer. Ease--Discounted time. Wealth--Baggage at the risk ov the owner. Trials--Whetstuns. Fortune--The aggregate ov possibilitys; a goddess whom cowards count by stealth, but whom brave men take by storm. Economy--A fust mortgage on wealth. Enough--Jist a leetle more. Dignity--Wisdum in tights. Mischief--The maliss ov fun. Cook--One who manufakters appetights. Diseases--The whipping posts and branding irons ov luxury. Drunkenness--Shame lost and shame found. Cowardice--Pluck on ice. Glutton--A man with a drunken appetight. Examples--Foot prints in the wilderness. Nunnery--Piety in chains. Ignorance--Raw happiness. Sin--A natral distemper, for which virtew haz bin discovered to be an antidote. Friendship--One ov love’s pimps.