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The big chestnut had been groomed and polished until his smooth coat shone like satin and blue ribbons were braided in his mane. The other nonwinners were a sorry-looking lot of dogs when compared with Last Chance, and the owner's bosom swelled with proud anticipation. "Look at the fire in his eye!" said Hopwood to the Bald-faced Kid. "See how lively he is!"
If he could have heard a conversation then going on in Old Man Curry's tackle-room, the figuring would have been easier. "Frank," said the old man, "I had my eye on you to-day. You ain't got designs on that fool's bank roll, have you?" The Bald-faced Kid blew a cloud of cigarette smoke into the air and watched it float to the rafters before he answered question with question.
Quite a gob of it." "And you you thought he'd win?" "Didn't I tell you to bet on him?" "Hell!" wailed the Bald-faced Kid. "He was lame he couldn't walk the night before! Bet on him? How could I after I'd seen him in that fix?" "Frank," said the old man, "you believe everything you see, don't you?" The Bald-faced Kid sat down and took his head in his hands.
Graham," said a once contented, but now expiring Nimrod to me, "after all you have said, give me a thousand a-year, and the old bald-faced mare again, and I don't care if I never see the kingdom of Heaven." Or, as Johnson parodied the enjoyment of the savage "With this cow by my side, and this grass at my feet, what can a bull wish for more?" Contentment!
And all he's runnin' for is the purse, Frank, like you said. I did my best to bet 'em until the price got too plumb ridiculous, but the children of Israel wouldn't take my money." The Bald-faced Kid glanced at the roll of bills which the old man still held in his hand. "Well, no wonder!" he snorted. "Don't you know that ain't any way to do?
But he said that he must see Randall. And, as the journey between Elstree and Wandsworth was somewhat long to be undertaken after office hours, he proposed the "Bald-Faced Stag," Edgware, as a convenient halfway house for them to meet at, and Wednesday, at seven or thereabouts, as the day and hour. Thus he allowed time for Randall to receive his letter and, if necessary, to answer it.
I bought a nice, fat hen and a glass pumping arrangement from a drug store.... The hen, she passed away this mornin' about daybreak. She bled quite a lot, but I got most of it in that rubber bag, and when Jeremiah was ready for his gallop " "You put it in his mouth?" Old Man Curry nodded. "Oh, why didn't you tell me?" wailed the Bald-faced Kid. "I could have cleaned up!"
The colonel had taken me by the right arm, and as we turned toward the road I took in the whole situation at a glance. My chestnut horse and the captain's bald-faced brown were dashing frantically against the long, swaying gun teams.
"Just about what I thought ... but tell me, son, why did you bring this to me?" The Bald-faced Kid laughed harshly. "Well, maybe it's because you're the only man 'round here that calls me Frank it's my name and I like to hear it once in a while. Maybe it's because you staked me once when I was broke and didn't take my right eye for security.
The Bald-faced Kid, wishing to forestall a conflict of evidence, made it his business to have the first word with the principal witness. He walked beside Little Calamity as that dispirited midget shuffled down the track from the judges' stand, saddle and tackle on his arm. Close behind them was Hopwood, leading the horse.
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