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Updated: May 28, 2025
They all ponied up promptly, though, and paid their outs, like true-born English ladies." "I do not think," said Miss Newville, "that I should like to lose or win money in that way." "Why, Miss Newville, once get into it, and you would say it is the most delightful sport in the world.
We'd had a pretty bad time with crooks around these parts, and them that was nabbed in Sour Creek got away; about two out of three, before they was brought to me at Woodville. So the boys got together and ponied up for this little jail, and it's as neat a pile of mud and steel as ever you see. Look at them bars. Kind of rusty, they look, but inside they're toolproof.
I am fated to do the Prisoner-of-Chillon stunt yet. This is prophecy. I once hypnotized a bull on Boston Common. It was past midnight and he had me dead to rights; but before I got done with him he had ponied up a silver quarter and given me the address of an all-night restaurant.
"I'll go right out and collect a dollar from each of the boys. Say that word over agin, till I git it sure." Shorty came back in a little while with his hands full of greenbacks "Every boy ponied right up the moment I spoke to him," he said. "And the Captain and Adjutant each gave $5. She's got money enough to buy out the best milliner shop in this part o' Tennessee."
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