Yes, without bettin'!

I'm bettin' on my draw to be jest the necessary half a hair quicker.

" "Now, Mistuh Tom," said Sandy seriously, "I don' min' lettin' you take my money, but I hopes you ain' gwine ter use it fer none er dem rakehelly gwines-on er yo'n,gamblin' an' bettin' an' so fo'th.

You take a handful of twigs in your hand, then throw 'em on to a flat rock endways, bettin' whether an odd or an even number will fall outside of a ring drawed in the dirt.

Kunnel Pen'leton 'lowed he'd 'a' bought dis nigger, but he had be'n bettin' on hoss races, en did

" "Ef you're bettin' on that, Mart," quickly interposed Moose Jones, "I've got some dust from my Golconda claim that's lyin' round loose at the Miners and Merchants Bank, an' five hundred of it says that you'rewell, seem' as there's ladies present, it says you're mistaken about Baldy's sperit.

" "Speakin' o' bets, an' curs, Mart, ef you want t' do any more bettin', I'm willin't' accommodate you.

" "Seems kinda onsportsman like, like bettin' on a sure thing; but ef you really insist, Moose, in the face

It came out, after, that he'd took to bettin' his employers' money agen the rich men up at the Royal Exchange.