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Jimmie put down his glass, stared reminiscently at it for a moment, and then, lifting his eyebrows, turned to Conniston. "Evenin', stranger. You might have made a remark?" "If your luck has been working for other people for six months it's my bet that it's on the way home to you right now! I don't mean any offense, and I am not sure of your customs out here.
To the repeated request, and then the demand, that McMillan be put back into the wheel to get along as best he could, there was a moment's hesitation and a sweet, but firm, feminine voice replied, "'Scotty' says" a gasp and a pause "he says he'll not ruin a faithful dog if every man, woman and child in all Alaska has bet on him.
The senator's son said: "When these rats and things begin to chase your old elephants, you won't be able to see their tails for the dust they will kick up." Then I thought of the money pa had given me to bet, and I offered to bet it all, and a negro produced funds and took all my bets like a bookmaker.
You remember, two years ago, we shot four grizzlies in a little valley that wasn't a mile long. Now an' then there's a boss among grizzlies, like this fellow we're after, but even he ain't got his range alone. I'll bet there's twenty other bears in these two valleys!
"Oh that girl is always with us, to keep us from enjoying life too much. Why don't they send her away to Boarding School or something? She has already gotten two people into trouble by tattling." "That girl's a pest!" Bet frowned with indignation. "Lady Betty Merriweather would have won her friendship and changed her whole character," said Kit, gazing into the smiling eyes. Joy laughed.
"Put them spectacles on wot I lent you, and it wouldn't be a bad idea if you tied your face up in a piece o' red flannel." "I know wot I'm going to do without you telling me," said Mr. Gibbs, nodding. "I'll bet you pots round that you don't either of you reckernize me tomorrow night." The bet was taken at once, and from eight o'clock until ten minutes to nine the following night Messrs.
It is not a question of my health at all; you may bet your bottom dollar I have an enemy, but I flatter myself I've routed him." Her breath was coming in gasps and she spoke with difficulty. Now that the excitement was over and the necessity for bearing up at an end, there came the reaction.
"Of course not, you should have had your half; but that is a very different thing." "Different in result perhaps, but not in principle; besides, come to think of it, I made a little bet myself." "You did how much?" "Oh, only $2." "Two dollars, eh? Well! That makes us twenty-two out altogether. Eleven apiece, if you insist upon it, although " "I do insist upon it; so that's settled, and now "
I'll bet segars you wake up three mornings out of four feelin' like a dish of stewed prunes." "If I do though of course I can only infer how such a dish feels it is really of no consequence, I assure you." "Don't you fool yourself! It makes a lot of consequence to you. Ask a doctor, if you don't believe me. But I got your dia'nosis now, same as a medical man that's right.
"You bet; it's all rock and will leave no trail. Take it easy and quiet until you are beyond Hennessey's ranch, and then give them the whip." The next moment they were under way, slowly advancing through the darkness.
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