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Mebbe this'll not be so bad. But I ain't bettin' on thet." Even Allie couldn't cheer Neale that night. Long after she and the others had retired he kept up the fire and listened to the roar of the wind. When the fire died down a little the cabin grew uncomfortably cold, and this fact attested to a continually dropping temperature. But he hoped against hope and finally sought his blankets.
He bristled up like a brindled cat. If there's any one thing the Cap'n is down on, it's gamblin' and such always exceptin' when he knows he's won already. You've seen that kind, maybe. "'Young feller, he says, perkish, 'I want you to know that me and my friend ain't the bettin' kind. What sort of a hole IS this, anyway? "The rubber collared critter backed off, lookin' worried.
Jockey Merritt, wearing Engle's colours, stood in the paddock stall eyeing Eliphaz and listening to the whispered instructions of the new owner. "Get him away flying, jock, and never look back. He's a fast breaker. Keep him in front all the way, but don't win too far." "Bettin' much on him?" asked Merritt. "Not a nickel. He opened at even money and they played him to 4 to 5.
Look at me, an' take warnin' so you won't make the same mistake an' go to makin' an' sellin' fancy work again.... "But I fooled 'em everybody. At the beginnin' the bettin' was even. By the sixth round the wise gazabos was offerin' two to one against me. I was licked from the first drop outa the box anybody could see that; but he couldn't put me down for the count.
We intend to do some fighting, too, when the time comes." "Oi'm bettin' thot yez presint a bold face to the inimy," nodded Tom, who liked the youths immensely. "An' sure, it's meself is wishin' thot we get a chance at the ridcoats before very long." "I hope so, Tim," said Dick. Soon after supper, that evening, Dick made his preparations for going on the expedition.
"O, I'm not bettin', Boy," pleaded the old man in the whimsical whine which he adopted when addressing his daughter. "Don't go and tell your mother that now. It wouldn't be right. Reelly it wouldn't. I'm only makin' a note or two for Mr. Silver here." The girl was lost in the crowd by the ropes. "She'd ha' come and sossed me, too, only you was with me," wheezed the old man confidentially.
They didn't act meachin', and tempt, and act indirect, I'll bet, or I wouldn't be afraid to bet, if I approved of bettin'." He sithed powerful, and sot round oneasy in his chair. And says he, "I thought wimmen was taught by the Bible to serve, and love their homes." "So they be. And every true woman loves to serve.
"The rest of us who's been buckin' the game moderate an' right cashes in at this, an' leaves an onobstructed cloth to the Stingin' Lizard. This yere's more caution than good nacher. As long as folks is bettin' along in limits, say onder fifty dollars, thar ain't no shootin' likely to ensoo.
I've laid for you, and now I've fell on you. Judge Bee, the fust business befo' yo' committee this mornin' is a assessment for old Beau, who's away down! Rheumatiz, bettin' on the black, failure of remittances from Fauqueeah, and other casualties by wind an' flood, have put ole Beau away down. He's a institution of his country and must be sustained!"
"Ah! and Oi suppose ye'll be betting wid thim bookmakers betting on the horses, will yez? They do be terrible knowing men, thim bookmakers, they tell me. I wouldn't bet much if Oi was ye," he said, with an affable smile. "If ye go bettin' ye will be took in wid thim bookmakers."
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