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Updated: June 15, 2025
Oh, that was a sovereign, half a thick un half a sovereign, twenty-five pounds a "pony," five hundred a "monkey," flash notes were "stumers," and a bookmaker who couldn't pay was "a Welsher." That? That was "the great Brockton," gentleman and tipster. "Amusement enough!"
The words were hardly out of his mouth before, light as a deer and close as steel, Cecil's hand was on his collar, and without any seeming effort, without the slightest passion, he calmly lifted him off the ground, as though he were a terrier, and thrust him through the throng; Ben Davis, as the welsher was named, meantime being so amazed at such unlooked-for might in the grasp of the gentlest, idlest, most gracefully made, and indolently tempered of his born foes and prey, "the swells," that he let himself be forced along backward in sheer passive paralysis of astonishment, while Bertie, profoundly insensible to the tumult that began to rise and roar about him, from those who were not too absorbed in the business of the morning to note what took place, thrust him along in the single clasp of his right hand outward to where the running ground swept past the Stand, and threw him lightly, easily, just as one may throw a lap-dog to take his bath, into the artificial ditch filled with water that the Seraph had pointed out as "a teaser."
The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher." When the informer was got hold of by his enemies he was usually treated very much after the fashion in which the welsher is handled to-day.
His lordship had gurgled, "You did! Your behavior was that of a of a " There was a very fair selection of evil-doers in all branches of business from which to choose. He gave the preference to the race-track. " of a common welsher," he concluded. "But I won't put up with it. No, not for an instant! I insist upon your returning that money to me here and now.
He would let no one say he was a "welsher." The machine worked night and day, and money was freely spent, and until the last, he hoped, his party would be returned, and then he could resign and retire honorably. He did not believe the machine could be defeated. They had too many ways of controlling the vote.
You can't make 'em give in, not even when they're mortal hit; that's the crusher of it." "Vell, vhat matter that ven you have hit 'em?" expostulated the more philosophic Jew. "Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes. "A clear fleecing of one.
Don't bet with those riff-raff, Berk. The great bookmakers will make you dead money, and the little Legs will do worse to you." The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher. "You have done the Turf a service, Beauty a very great service; there's no doubt about that," said the Seraph.
"Dey can do vot dey like; dey von't get to de bottom of de vell. Dat Villon is sharp; he vill know how to keep his tongue still; dey can prove nothing; dey may give de sack to a stable-boy, or dey may think themselves mighty bright in seeing a mare's nest, but dey vill never come to us." The welsher gave a loud, hoarse guffaw of relish and enjoyment. "No!
"Quite a plunge on a long shot, with a welsher like Collator! making the book," commented Loring. "He stripped you clean." "I have my appetite," insisted Gamble with a grin. His cheeks were ruddy and his skin as flawless as a babe's, and his eyes exceptionally large were as clear as they were direct. "An appetite like yours only makes it worse to be broke," laughed Loring.
"She says Lady Hannah says that the eagerness and curiosity with which the brute snapped up the hint she'd never meant to drop, warned her to shunt him off on another line, and give no more information. They got on money matters; and, seeing plain how she'd been bilked, my wife gave the welsher a bit of her mind, and he showed his teeth in a way that meant Murder.
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