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'Lisha was trained not to look in the bettin' ring on the way to the post. Ye-es, 'Lisha had a chance; he always had a chance 'count of bein' honest and doin' the best he knowed how. The other owners? Well, now, it was this way: he couldn't really say what they was up to; he expected, though, they'd all be tryin'. Himself person'ly, he only bothered about his own hosses; they kept his hands full.
That long drawn-out "Ah!" was, in some sense, a testimony to Abdullah's wisdom. While Irene was sobbing her joy on her grandfather's breast, Stump crushed a broad track through the ever-increasing mob until he reached Royson. "I was bettin' on you from the minnit I missed you," he roared genially. "You're a fair wonder, an' no mistake. By Gad, how did you manage it?
In two days he returned, depressed in spirit. Madeline happened to be present when Stillwell talked to Alfred. "I got there too late, Al," said the cattleman. "Gene was gone. An' what do you think of this? Danny Mains hed jest left with a couple of burros packed. I couldn't find what way he went, but I'm bettin' he hit the Peloncillo trail." "Danny will show up some day," replied Alfred.
An' I'm bettin' he'll get you." Her face reddened, and she looked at him plainly indignant. "He is a brute," she said. "Most all men is brutes if you scratch them deep enough," drawled Dade. "The trouble with Calumet is that he's never had a chance to spread on the soft stuff. He's the plain, unvarnished, dyed-in-the-wool, original man. There's a word fits him, if I could think of it."
"While the Cap'n was tryin' to unravel one end of this gibberish I spoke up prompt. "'Say, says I, 'tell me this, will you? Is the Kelly who owns this this palace, named Jimmie James, I mean? "'Naw, says he. 'Sure he ain't. It's Pete Kelly, of course Silver Pete. But what are you givin' us? Are you bettin' on the race, or ain't you? "Well, Jonadab understood that.
Another storm coming up. Outlook bad." "Seems kinda onsportsman like, like bettin' on a sure thing; but ef you really insist, Moose, in the face o' this yere message, why you kin go as fur's you like. Mebbe a dollar 'ud suit you better, the way things is goin' now, than a thousand;" and the people laughed at the covert allusion to their previous wager.
"Well, I'm bettin' on it, and bettin' on it high," said Young. "I don't pretend t' know as much about this sort o' thing as Rayburn does; but I do think I know a live devil when I see one an' these miners are about as lively an' about as devilly as anything that ever broke loose from hell.
"'What'll you take fur him? I says to Ike. "'Take fur him? he says. 'Whatever he'll bring. I ain't out nothin' on him. I splits three thousand with you to the race. "'You owe me a hundred 'n' thirty fur trainin', I says. 'I calls it off 'n' keeps the hoss. "'You've bought him, says Ike, 'n' goes back to the bettin' shed. "They take Micky to the hospital.
If Lucy had been a boy she would have been the greatest rider on the uplands; and even girl as she was, superbly mounted, she would have been dangerous in any race. "Wal, I ain't afraid of your handlin' of a hoss," he said, soberly. "An' as long as you're in earnest I won't stop you. But, Lucy, no bettin'. I won't let you gamble." "Not even with you?" she coaxed. Bostil stared at the girl.
De colonel was what yer call a fas' man, one ob yo' racin', bettin' characters, but right smart ob a gentleman same time; while de cap'n b'longed to de Church, and war de meanes' man out of Missouri. 'Bout dat time de firm owned Challenger, de fas'est Kansas horse goin', an' dey made a heap ob money a-racin' him at all de fairs.
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