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Updated: July 20, 2025
We'll let it stand there, gov'nor, and you'll do the 'andsome thing, as you 'ave always 'ad the name for doin'. Well, then, your man, Jim 'Arisen, fights Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, at Crawley Down to-morrow mornin' for a stake." "What of that?" "Did you 'appen to know what the bettin' was yesterday?" "It was three to two on Wilson." "Right you are, gov'nor.
"'As owner, I insist that you allow Alcyfras to win this race, he says, 'n' goes away in a pet when I tells him nix. "The day of the race I don't see Elsy at all. "'You ain't got a ticket to-day, 'n' you know the answer, I says to Lou Smith as the parade starts. He don't say nothin' but nods, so I think he's fixed. "When I come through the bettin' ring I can't believe my eyes.
"I'm bettin' my little gun to a thousand dollars less than nothin'. Ain't you game? I'm givin' you the long end." "Never mind," growled Tenlow. "You can talk later." The boy Collie, recovering from his surprise at the arrest, stepped up to the sheriff. "Where do I come in?" he asked. "You can't pinch Red without me. I was with him that time the guy croaked out on the Mojave. Red didn't kill him.
"Showin' themselves for bait, plainlike?" Kirby asked. "If we have to. The alarm will have gone out. I'm bettin' there're patrols thick on that road." "Any blue bellies travelin' theah now are gonna be bunched an' ready to shoot at anything movin'." "So," Croff cut in over Webb's instant objection, "you get some Yankees a-hittin' it up after you, and you run for here.
Begorra, ye've been bettin' on the game!" "That's jest what I have," nodded Gallup grimly. "Arter yeou and Frank went off and I went to roamin' araound I run up ag'inst the big bear. He give me a cigar, and we went into Priley's Hotel. He wanted me to have a drink with him, but I didn't take nuthin' intoxicatin'. Silence was there, with a whole lot of them baseball fellers.
He neveh got up agin a syndicate bettin' ring an' crooked judgin'. He neveh rode no close finish 'ith Irish jocks an' had his shin barked on 'e fence. You kin take Sol'mun's word faw it, boss, but li'l Moseby, he's f'um Mizzoury. He'll steal a flyin' start nex' time out an' try to stay so far in front that no Irish boy kin reach him 'ith a lariat!"
Thar's thousands an' thousands of people, mobbin' about indiscrim'nate; I sees 'em as near an' plain as I sees Dan. "'An' whatever be they doin'? asks Dan. "'They're pullin' off a hoss race, says the Colonel, lookin' steady in Dan's eye. 'An' you hears me! I never sees sech bettin' in my life.
We're bettin' on yer." "Yes, sit down and have a drink, Chris," said Andy. "I've got to have somethin' more to drink. I haven't had a thing to drink all the evening." He pulled him back into his chair. Chrisfield tried to get up again. Andrews hung on him so that the chair upset. Then both sprawled on the red tiles of the floor. "The house is pinched!" said a voice.
I don't suppose there'll be much excitement." "Um," replied the cook, placing a pile of toast and dripping in front of his visitor. "I wouldn't mind bettin' a day's pay you git all the fun yer want afore yer git back." "Why, what makes you think that?" asked George, amused at the man's tone of conviction.
"I started in to tell you, son, and you said I ought to have my head examined. And then, I kind of like to surprise folks, Frank. I knew you wouldn't have the nerve to bet on a bleeder like Jeremiah, so I had some bettin' done for you." Old Man Curry fumbled in his pocket and produced a roll of bills. "Solomon says there's a time to get, and I don't know of any better time than get-away day!"
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