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"And I vos sure of him," added Hans. However, they took hold willingly enough, and soon the whole party were moving slowly through the snowstorm, shoving the Fiver in front of them. The snow had now become blinding, and absolutely nothing was to be seen around them. A half hour had passed, and they were wondering why the shore did not appear, when suddenly Dick uttered a warning cry. "Look out!
"It sometimes means paper," said Jock, with some solemnity. "Last time you came to see me at school Sir Tom gave me a fiver " "A what?" "Oh, a five-pound note," said Jock, with momentary impatience; "the other's shorter to say and less fuss. MTutor thought he had better not; but I didn't mind. I don't see why anybody should mind.
Where's my hat? I've got an income for life! Where's that confounded hat? Lend me a fiver, Bertie. I want to take a taxi down to Park Row!" Jeeves smiled paternally. Or, rather, he had a kind of paternal muscular spasm about the mouth, which is the nearest he ever gets to smiling. "If I might make the suggestion, Mr.
Lord love a duck! what a soakin' he gev' me in Brighton. Some lah-di-dah toff swaggered into the garage that evenin', and handed Dale a fiver five golden quidlets, if you please which my nibs had won on a horse at Epsom. I must say, though, Dale did the thing handsome quart bottles o' Bass opened every ten minutes. Thank you, my dear" this to the waitress, "next to beer give me tea.
"Phillips says we shall have to pay a fiver each, what do you think?" I said, without turning round, and instead of answering me Jack went straight into his bedder and seemed to be washing himself vigorously. "What are you doing?" I shouted, but Jack went on washing, so I shut up asking questions.
As the pool was two pounds, and the lives were one, this was exactly the amount of pecuniary risk to be run, and which want of the necessary funds had alone prevented the young man from incurring. "Here is a fiver," replied the parson, softly. "Yes, yes; you have expectations enough," answered the other, hurriedly. "You may give me that living yet yourself who knows? Take a ball, man take a ball."
"Perhaps so; he's a suspicious fool, but I made a bargain with him about our last cheque. He can hang on to the stuff, and I can't. If I'd been on my own I'd have blued it a week ago. You take the odd fiver for your trouble." "That looks fair enough. We'll call it twenty guineas to you and your mate. We'll want him, you know."
I bet you you're not game, when you see that tulip I've been tellin' you about, to take her in your arms and kiss her. A fiver on it!" "Done!" cried Mahony. "And I'll have it in one note, if you please!" "Bravo!" cried Purdy. "Bravo, Dick!"
Winifred produced a five-pound note, saying: "Well, perhaps you'd better pay him, but you mustn't stand the tickets too." Val pocketed the fiver. "If I do, I can't," he said. "Good-night, Mum!" He went out with his head up and his hat cocked joyously, sniffing the air of Piccadilly like a young hound loosed into covert. Jolly good biz! After that mouldy old slow hole down there!
I'll ride the blanky horse for a fiver, and I'll feel the blanky quids in my pocket before I get on. Meanwhile the coach had dashed up to the door of the shanty. There were about twenty passengers aboard inside, on the box-seat, on the tail-board, and hanging on to the roof most of them Sydney men going up to the Mudgee races.
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