After one of these entertainments I was travelling with John Gully, once a formidable champion of the ring, and at that time a great bookmaker, as well as owner of racehorsesafterwards presented at Court to her most gracious Majesty the late Queenand Member of Parliament.

Its founder was a veritable dunce, but he was the cleverest of bookmakers, and made more by it in one night than all the authors of that day in their lives.

Soon we find instances of brothers continuing the work the father had begun, as in the case of the Elzevirs and the Plantins, the great bookmakers of Holland.

"The collapse of the favourite and the grand victory of King Cole, a rank outsider, on the other hand, had proved a golden harvest for the bookmakers, and all the York hotels were busy with dinners and suppers given by the confraternity of the Turf to celebrate the happy occasion.

He had stated to the police that the deceased's name was Charles Lavender, a well-known bookmaker, which fact was soon verified, for many of the murdered man's 'pals' were still in the city.

"So far the most pushing of newspaper reporters had been unable to glean further information from the police; no one doubted, however, but that the man in charge, who gave his name as George Higgins, had killed the bookmaker for purposes of robbery.

That news was that the inquest had concluded at three o'clock with a verdict of 'Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown,' and that two hours later the police had arrested Lord Arthur Skelmerton at his private residence, 'The Elms,' and charged him on a warrant with the murder of Charles Lavender, the bookmaker.

" CHAPTER VIII THE CAPITAL CHARGE "The police, it appears, instinctively feeling that some mystery lurked round the death of the bookmaker and his supposed murderer's quiet protestations of innocence, had taken a very considerable amount of trouble in collecting all the evidence they could for the inquest which might throw some light upon Charles Lavender's life, previous to his tragic end.

"At this point the police proposed to call a witness, James Terry by name and a bookmaker by profession, who had been chiefly instrumental in identifying the deceased, a 'pal' of his.

"If James Terry, the bookmaker, loud, florid, vulgar, was an unprepossessing individual, certainly George Higgins, who was still under the accusation of murder, was ten thousand times more so.

He had it already in his hand when the train reached the track, and he hurried with the rest towards the bookmakers to get his one hundred on as quickly as possible.

I see that your friend Mr. Danby is a builder as well as a bookmaker.

There are eighty contributions, as the bookmakers say, "in prose and verse," with a predominance of the former.

The old chief acted as judge, bookmaker, clerk of the course, referee, and stakeholder.

Now, suppose instead of that scattered band of un-co-ordinated workers a great army of hundreds of thousands of well-paid men; suppose, for instance, the community had kept as many scientific and medical investigators as it has bookmakers and racing touts and men about townshould we not know a thousand times as much as we do about disease and health and strength and power?

'Anyway, it would be a disgrace to a man to have a son a bookmakera blackguard bookmaker.

Why, didn't I know that Charles was a racing and betting man, and a notorious bookmaker?

A blackguard bookmaker!

A pleasant thing for me to have all my friends talking about Charles Daffy, the bookmaker and the moneylender!

'Bookmakers are respectable men in comparison with him.

It matters nothing whether you keep the rules of the blackguard game, or whether you cheat; the difference between bookmaker and blackleg is so small that it isn't worth talking about.

The people to whom nowadays we give big fortunes, though they include a large number of organizers of useful industry, also number within their ranks a crowd of hangers on such as bookmakers, sharepushers, and vendors of patent pills or bad stuff to read.

By our greed and wastefulness we give fortunes to bookmakers, market-riggers and money-lenders.

The professional bookmakers have the latest possible and most exact information on which to base their bids.

Patronise all titled sportsmen, and pat wealthy bookmakers on the back.