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The duck thought he had the distemper, and just threw 'um away. Nothun wrong with 'um but a little catarrh. Ain't he a bird? Say, ain't he a bird? Look at his flag; it's perfect; and see how he carries his tail on a line with his back. See how stiff and white his whiskers are. Oh, by damn! you can't fool me on a dog. That dog's a winner."
'The just thing in the long run is the strong thing. But Reineke had a long run out and came in winner. Does he only 'seem to succeed? Who does succeed, then, if he no more than seems?
2 "Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." 3 "Carry the bell and wear the garland," alluding to our old English races; the winner being rewarded with a silver bell, and crowned with a garland: or to the morris dance, in which the leader carried the garland and danced with bells fixed to his dress. Ed.
"Yes; I only had two hundred francs to commence, so I won exactly eleven thousand." "Then take my advice, and don't play again as long as you are in this place, for you're sure to lose it. Go away a winner. I once won five hundred francs, and made a vow never to play again. That's a year ago, and I have never staked a single piece since.
'Most unbecoming language! he murmured. 'Perhaps it may be as well to humour him. Where is he? 'In the entrance hall, your lordship! 'Take him into the library and say I will see him shortly. Most unusual, said the bishop to himself. Then added aloud, 'Mrs Pansey, I am called away for a moment; pray excuse me. 'We must talk about The Derby Winner later on, said Mrs Pansey, determinedly.
"If I'd thought," said Spratt angrily in the privacy of the Orpheum office, "that you were sucker enough to get roped in for the full season, I'd have tossed you out of the running for this week. This game is a bigger gamble than the Stock Exchange. The smartest producers in the business never know when they have a winner or a loser.
The little man stood there in the stillness, sourly smiling, his face still wet from his exertions; while the Tailless Tyke at his side fronted defiantly the serried ring of onlookers, a white fence of teeth faintly visible between his lips. Lady Eleanour looked uneasy. Usually the lucky winner was unable to hear her little speech, as she gave the Cup away, so deafening was the applause.
A tin circular disk cut from the top of a tin can will do. Drive a nail through this tin medal near the edge and pass a string through the hole so that it may be hung around the neck of the winner. Or instead of giving a medal, the victor may be crowned, like the ancient Greeks, with a wreath of leaves. =Blindfold Obstacle Walk= Another amusing camp sport is the blindfold obstacle walk.
What had come over him and induced this inverse thinking? As he thought the question, the answer appeared at the same instant. Winner Ihjel. The fat man with the strange pronouncements and probing questions. Had he cast a spell like some sorcerer or the devil in Faust? No, that was pure nonsense. But he had done something. Perhaps planted a suggestion when Brion's resistance was low.
During his studies, he met with a clever and brilliant friend who had imbibed the deistical teaching of the French Revolution, and infected him with it, and he came home at seventeen the winner of all the honours and prizes that the College afforded, but announcing himself to his parents as a decided infidel!
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