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Updated: June 18, 2025
I shut my eyes on the bookmakers, and I only spare attention for the myriads who make the bookmakers' existence possible who would evolve new bookmakers from their midst if we exterminated the present tribe to-morrow. It is not the professional bettors who cause the existence of fools; it is the insensate fools who cause the existence of professional bettors.
"Then if you have still the same sense of honour that made you keep faith with the bookmakers you didn't run away from them! read it now, here in my presence. Read it, Shiel. I demand that you read it now. It is my right. You are in honour bound " It was the only way. She dare not give him time to question, to suspect; she must sweep him along to conviction.
This piteous wretch, with his fatuous airs of sharpness, was exactly the kind of game that the bookmakers cared to fly at; he was cajoled and stimulated; he was trapped at every turn; the vultures flapped round him; and there was no strong, wise man to give the booby counsel or to drag him by main force from his fate.
Half-consciously, he thought: 'There's something in this damned climate which makes one go round in a ring. All the same, I must have a strain of Mayfly blood. In this mood he reached the Mecca of his hopes. It was one of those quiet meetings favourable to such as wish to look into horses, rather than into the mouths of bookmakers; and Val clung to the paddock.
Beyond the Silver Lea the gaunt Scaur raised its craggy peak, and the Pass, trending along its side, shone white in the sunshine. At the back of the carriages were booths, cocoanut-shies, Aunt Sallies, shows, bookmakers' stools, and all the panoply of such a meeting.
By this time the noise made by the bookmakers in the inclosure below was like that of ten thousand sea fowl on a reef of rock, and Glory was trying to speak above the deafening clangour. "Silver and gold have I none, but if I had what's that?" A white flag had fallen as signal for the start, there was a hollow roar from the starting post, and people were shouting, "They're off!"
He rubbed elbows with street walkers, with bookmakers, with saloonkeepers, with the exploiters of lost women. The bartenders of the city called him by his first name, the policemen, the night detail, were familiar with his face, the drivers of the nighthawks recognized his figure by the street lamps, paling in the light of many an early dawn.
This was Ab Mears, of whom it was said that he trained his horses to look into the betting ring on their way to the post and to run in accordance with the figures they saw upon the bookmakers' slates. "Let's not have any arguments, boys.
From time to time over 2,197 actors have had to walk home on account of Pete's cold feet. Pete can develop a severe case of frosted pave pounders quicker than any angel that ever had to dig for the oatmeal money. Pete is an Ace all right the Ace of Chumps! His long suit when he isn't dishing out his autobiography is to stand around a race track and bark at the bookmakers.
If we cut out the whole tribe of bookmakers and betting-agents, and applied such cautery as would prevent any similar growth from arising in the place wherefrom we excised them, we should do very little good; for the life-blood of Britain is tainted, and no superficial remedy can cure her now.
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