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Miss Young helps me with my songs an' she's learnin' me to sew, too. Why, I git my five dollars every Sunday jest as reg'lar as Sunday comes. I ain't never knew how far a fiver could go afore. We won't be needin' nothin' this winter, Daddy and me won't, dear." She gave a delicious giggle to which Longman added a chuckle. "That air good, brat," he replied.

"All deuced fine," he went on, "I'll bet you a fiver you don't know who he was either!" I kicked at him under the seat of the carriage, but it was of no use, he persisted in his reckless offers of "laying fivers," and our united ignorance stood fatally revealed.

"For God's sake, Mr. Vickers, don't suggest them there sort of thoughts. You make me feel right down poorly, Mr. Vickers, to say such! It's worse than a bad dream, Mr. Vickers no, sir, no, surely you're mistaken!" "Bet you a fiver to a halfpenny it's the Pike," retorted Vickers. "I know her lines. Besides she's heading straight here. Copplestone!" he cried, turning to the advancing couple.

He often played with her feelings in a delicate style, and his astuteness in such matters was only surpassed by his shamelessness. He was capable of borrowing a fiver from the Pope or at least of attempting the feat; of pocketing some hungry widow's last mite and therewith purchasing a cigarette before her eyes. All these sums he took as his due, by right of conquest.

"One second, Dreever," he said. "Eh? Hullo! What's up?" "Any money on that game?" asked Jimmy. "Why, yes, by Jove, now you mention it, there was. An even fiver. And er by the way, old man the fact is, just for the moment, I'm frightfully You haven't such a thing as a fiver anywhere about, have you? The fact is " "My dear fellow, of course. I'll square up with him now, shall I?"

"'Tain't half as dangerous as that orchard back there, if you didn't come into it honest! an' if you did come honest, there ain't no reason why I can't borry a fiver bein' a fam'ly matter, as you might say!" "I came honest, and I'm leaving honest, you drunken fool," Brent raved at him. "And don't try any blackmail dodges on me or I'll beat your head off!" "Blackmail!"

As the racing man allows his memory to dwell on the achievements of Oily Hair his confidence rises. "I see nothing to beat him," he says to himself. He has just decided to put "a fiver" on him when he meets an acquaintance, who suggests a drink. As they drink, the talk turns on horses. "What are you backing in the big race to-morrow?" "Have you heard anything?" "I heard Oily Hair." "I think not.

"Why Dainty Dick started at three to one on, so he only won about thirty shillings, and he lost a fiver backing The Philosopher. I thought he had made a fortune by the way he was talking at dinner," Dennison answered. For a moment Ward looked furious, and the exultant way in which Dennison told me what had happened must have annoyed him tremendously.

And the old man laughed contemptuously, while we felt humbled in the sight of the man from far back. "An' what'll ye be wantin' for him?" asked M'Gregor. "Reckon he's worth fifteen notes," said the drover. This fairly staggered us. Our estimates had varied between thirty shillings and a fiver.

"Captain Suckling has asked me to present his excuses to your Excellency " began the first lieutenant in his best tone of ceremony; and, with that, took a step backward as His Excellency flung out a rigid arm. "The Dustman! for a fiver!" "I I beg your Excellency's pardon your Excellency was pleased to observe " "The Dustman, for a hundred pounds! Jem Clark, too!