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I shouldn't wonder if he went all the way to India to see the race for the Calcutta Sweepstake that one hears so much about. "'Travel enlarges the mind, my dear Christine, said her aunt.
Nicely planed. Like the way it curves there. I wouldn't do anything at all in that line, Davy Byrne said. It ruined many a man, the same horses. Vintners' sweepstake. Licensed for the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises. Heads I win tails you lose. True for you, Nosey Flynn said. Unless you're in the know. There's no straight sport going now. Lenehan gets some good ones.
Bones got up slowly. "Captain Hamilton, sir!" he said reproachfully, "after all I have done for you." "Beyond selling me one of your beastly sweepstake tickets for five shillings," said Hamilton, unpleasantly; "a ticket which I dare say you have taken jolly good care will not win a prize, I fail to see in what manner you have helped me. Now, Bones, you will have to pay more attention to your work.
I want to know how it comes that your name appears here at the head of a list of entries for a sweepstake on a horse race, when you as a prefect know that gambling in any shape or form is strictly prohibited here?" Felgate, taken back by this unexpected indictment, looked at the paper and laughed. "I really don't know how my name comes there.
At first he thought of a pigeon match a sweepstake open to all England fifty members say, at two pound ten each, seven pigeons, seven sparrows, twenty-one yards rise, two ounces of shot, and so on. But then, again, he thought there would be a difficulty in getting guns. A coursing match how would that do?
We were to pick up the Eddystone; and as this was calculated to happen at sunset, or a little after, the usual sweepstake on the saloon-deck aroused a little more than the usual excitement. For the first glimpse, whether of lighthouse or light, would give the prize to the nearest guesser. Our guesses had been tabulated, and the paper pinned up in the smoking-room.
"I think I have told you before that I have tickets in a Continental sweepstake. I should be awfully obliged " "Go away!" snarled Hamilton. Bones went cheerfully enough. He loved the life on the Zaire, the comfort of Sanders' cabin, the electric reading lamp and the fine sense of authority.
They, however, rode over every now and then, and most cheerfully rendered what assistance they could, until it was time to return for tennis or a shooting sweepstake, and Winston thanked them gravely, even when he and his Ontario axmen found it necessary to do the work again.
Our musical uproar set dogs barking for miles, cocks crowed at our passage, and generals turned in their second sleep to hear such martial progress in the night. The march through Racquinghem and Aire was long, lasting nearly all night. To flatter its interest a sweepstake had been arranged among the officers for who should name the exact moment of its conclusion.
"There is one thing I forgot to say," he said, "about those sweepstake tickets. If I happen to be killed on any future expedition that you may send me, you will understand that the whole of my moveable property is yours, absolutely.
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