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"Bet that wad of bills is a dummy with a counterfeit twenty outside of it," he said. Scattergood smiled tantalizingly. Locker had not, fortunately for Scattergood, the least idea how close to the truth he had been. On one point only had he been mistaken. The twenty outside was not counterfeit.
That trail led around the basin and back near to us, up the thick green slope, where high up near a ledge we heard the pack jump this bear. It sounded to us as if he had been roused out of a sleep. "I'll bet it's one of the big grizzlies we've heard about," said Teague. That was something to my taste. I have seen a few grizzlies.
May junior, will you never leave off staring? you won't see a bit farther for it," said Edward Anderson, shaking him by the ear; "come to your senses, and know your friends." "He'll open it!" gasped Tom. "So he will, but I'd bet ninety to one, it is not at that page, or if he does, it won't tell tales, unless, indeed, he happened to see you standing there, crouching and shaking.
Kellyan paused. "I can't cover your bet, Pedro, but I'll kill your Bear for what's in the bottle." "I take you," said the sheep-herder, "eef you breeng back dose sheep dat are now starving up on de rocks of de canon of Baxstaire's." The Mexican's eyes twinkled as the white man closed on the offer.
"I suppose you will be marrying Miss Hathaway off some day," observed Bob a trifle self-consciously, without raising his eyes from his work. "You bet I won't," came emphatically from the old inventor. "I've got some courage but not enough for that.
The usual test, whether that which any one maintains is merely his persuasion, or his subjective conviction at least, that is, his firm belief, is a bet. It frequently happens that a man delivers his opinions with so much boldness and assurance, that he appears to be under no apprehension as to the possibility of his being in error. The offer of a bet startles him, and makes him pause.
"Oh, there may be a few of 'em run, but there's them kind in every regiment, 'specially when they first goes under fire," said the other in a tolerant way. "Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun. But you can't bet on nothing.
"But don't you bums think y' can loaf round here. It's goin' t' be work from now right through till the wheat's cut. Jail birds, both on y', I bet. Well, there ain't nothin' round here to steal. Y' can both sleep in the hands' house back yonder and hop to meals when the bell rings. There's some old hats in the barn; shed them pies y' got on yer heads and try t' look like honest men anyhow."
The idee was to put a little box full of playin'-cards on the table, and draw them forth one at a time, to see just how they'd fall. Some of the students got that interested they bet on the results." "Oh!" said Charley, "I took a course in that one winter myself. Did you always draw one card at a time out'n that box, Zeke?" "So help me, Bob! I did," returned Mr. Scraggs most earnestly.
If that was Millard and I'd bet a torpedo boat it was how he must have chuckled over the idea of having one of the submarine boys carry his bag for him." "How far did you go with this 'lady'?" asked the Lieutenant Ridder, with a faint touch of sarcasm. "Two blocks," replied Eph. "And you left her " "At a cheap hotel where I can find her again. And I guess it's up to us to start right away."
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