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She called him a debauched creature, boxed his ears, and forced him to beg her pardon. The next day Violle resumed his previous form." Having heard this story the venerable Canon Monnoyer thanked Pierre Mille for having told it, and, taking up his pen, began to write out a list of horses that would win at the next race meeting. For he was a book-maker's clerk.
If you've got an empty seat in your car, I'll drive home with you. From Cavanaugh they borrowed a book-maker's hand-bag and stuffed it with thousand-dollar bills. When they stepped into the car the crowd still surrounded them. "He's taking it home in a trunk!" they yelled. That night the "sporting extras" of the afternoon papers gave prominence to the luck at the races of Champneys Carter.
The former, however, is the easier method and can be with difficulty detected, for very few people keep transcripts of the French pools, more particularly that before they are closed everybody is off trying to secure a good place to see the race." The prohibition placed upon pool selling naturally renders the book-maker's occupation to be at a premium.
Spent most of his time smoking in the drawing-room, and laboured under the delusion that, as my amanuensis, he was at liberty to forge my signature to all documents, including cheques. He used my official note-paper to back horses on, and was finally requested to leave, after an unseemly brawl with a book-maker's tout on my doorstep. Number Two. Oxford: a First in Greats.
There were Black Knight and Scapegrace, Rightful and Happy Lad, Bean Eater and Emetic the latter the great sprinter who was bracketed with Swallow on the book-maker's sheets. Mares, fillies, geldings every offering of horse-flesh above three years. All striving for the glory and honor of winning this great sprint handicap. The monetary value was the lesser virtue.
There had been a remand, then assurances on the part of a harassed father, and the young man had gone out to bear the White Man's Burden overseas. The imagination of another, a lad who had never before been in a town at all, fell to the glamour of music-halls and bar parlours; he spent his time among racing-men, tipsters, and trainers, and now was become a book-maker's clerk.
Those are a book-maker's takings. The binocular is a racing-man's glass. Our late friend used the language of the track. I think we'll find him on page nine." "Try," said Waldemar, handing him a paper still spicy with the keen odor of printer's ink. Swiftly the Ad-Visor's practiced eye ran over the column.
"The doctor says he will not be out for a week. Aubrey is certain it was that horrible book-maker's men who did it, but of course he can prove nothing. But his last words to me were, 'Slip it into Percy again this week. He has given me one or two things to mention. I don't understand them, but Aubrey says they will make him wild." Roland's flesh crept. The idea of making Mr.
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