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Updated: May 23, 2025
Took on her uncle's farm, who died suddenly. Used to measure his money in half-pint cups. They say now that she've business in every bank in Casterbridge, and thinks no more of playing pitch-and-toss sovereign than you and I, do pitch-halfpenny not a bit in the world, shepherd." "That's she, back there upon the pony." said Mary- ann.
They did not scrupulously confine themselves to a single sort of theft, as I hear is common among modern thieves. They were ready for anything, from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter.
Witness the career of Dick Idle, upon whom our friend Mr. Sala has been discoursing. Dick only began by playing pitch-and-toss on a tombstone: playing fair, for what we know: and even for that sin he was promptly caned by the beadle. The bamboo was ineffectual to cane that reprobate's bad courses out of him.
He was up to that, too. A man who's been in the patent-medicine trade will be up to anything from pitch-and-toss to wilful murder. And that's a bit of hard truth for you. Don't mind what they do think they can carry off anything and talk themselves out of anything all the world's a fool to them. Business man, too, Cloete. Came over with a few hundred pounds.
But we had considerably more than a capful of wind, and there was a turgent ground-swell on, which made our boat—double-engined, and as trim and tidy a craft as ever sped across the span from shore to shore—behave rather lively, with sportive indulgence in a brisk game of pitch-and-toss that proved anything but comfortable to most of the passengers.
As these men were fit for anything from pitch-and-toss to murder and soon outnumbered the colonists, the place was kept in constant alarm and watchfulness. For, as I dare say you know, the Malays are sometimes liable to have the spirit of amok on them, which leads them to care for and fear nothin', and to go in for a fight-to-death, from which we get our sayin' run amuck.
Moblots were playing pitch-and-toss on its steps. "I don't wish you to accompany me, Messieurs," said Lemercier, apologetically, "but I am going to enter the church." "To pray?" asked De Breze, in profound astonishment. "Not exactly; but I want to speak to my friend Rochebriant, and I know I shall find him there." "Praying?" again asked De Breze. "Yes."
The miners' school is neither more nor less than a largely attended game of pitch-and-toss, at which sometimes hundreds of pounds in gold or notes change hands. I remember one old man who had only one shilling between him and the grave, so he told me. He could not decide whether to invest his last coin in a gallon of water or in the "heading-school."
They are always ready for anything from 'pitch-and-toss to manslaughter, and no Malay king has to ask twice in their hearing 'Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest? Their one aim in life is to gain the favour of their master, and, having won it, to freely abuse their position.
His food he cooks on a stick the asadevo fixed in the ground before the fire; and eats it without bread or any kind of vegetable, washing it down with copious draughts of yerba. He will gamble on all occasions, either with cards, dominoes, or coin a pitch-and-toss style of game. His horse-racing is more for the sake of obtaining the bets staked on the match.
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