" "Poor Billy Edwards wins his bet," said Forsythe, in a low voice.

He professes "no cure no pay," as well he may, for if nature does the work, he is paid for it; if not, he neither wins nor loses; and like a cunning rook lays his bets so artfully, that, let the chance be what it will, he either wins or saves.

" "Make believe you are making a bet with me and show a roll, then we will bait them and they will go for you; and, oh, won't we give 'em a lesson?

After losing two or three bets he threw down a fifty dollar bill and lost that also.

They raised three hundred dollars and bet it on their horse, while of course, I backed Tall Bull with an equal amount, and in addition took numerous side bets.

Also, if, next year, we send out Posterior and Posterioress, the winners of the great national four-mile race in 7 18-1/2, and they happen to get beaten, pay your bets, and behave like men and gentlemen about it, if you know how.

'Will you 'ave a bet on it, Bob?' "'No,' ses Bob Pretty; 'I don't want to win no man's money.

" The money was paid as easily as it had been won, and the dowager proceeded to settle some bets with her female antagonist.

" David and I went into the buffet of the cinema after the fight to hear the arguments over it, and he to collect bets.

Luke Tweezy was not overlooking any bets at that moment.

They made conjectures as to whether Capitan Tiago would invite St. Peter to a soltada, whether they would place bets, whether the game-cocks were immortal, whether invulnerable, and in this case who would be the referee, who would win, and so on: discussions quite to the taste of those who found sciences, theories, and systems, based on a text which they esteem infallible, revealed or dogmatic.

The three backers rubbed their hands when they saw him at work punching the ball in the gymnasium next morning; and Fawcett, the horse-breaker, who had written to Leeds to hedge his bets, sent a wire to cancel the letter, and to lay another fifty at the market price of seven to one.

I might have repeated the offer and accepted the bet over and over again, so popular was it.

Any way that suited the other man would suit himany way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied.

After a long search for the purpose of deciding a bet, some gentlemen of Cambridge found it among the fragments of Euripides, in what edition I do not recollect, where it is given as a translation of a Greek Iambick: [Greek: Ou Theos thelei apolesoi' apophreuai.]

And when we remember the heavy bets on favorite horses, and the universal passion for gambling in every shape, we can form some idea of the effect of these amusements on the common mind,destroying the taste for home pleasures, and for all that was intellectual and simple.

"'I had done pretty well over Peppercorn's fiasco,' he explained, 'but poor old Lavender was very much down in the dumps; he had held only a few very small bets against the favourite, and the rest of the day had been a poor one with him.

He doubled his bet and won, leaving him one chip ahead.

My intention is to annul the wager which was yesterday made between you and my kinsman Carwash, I beg of you to cancel this bet, for all that is uttered over cups and flagons is of no serious account, and ought to be forgotten."

"They're offering bets of ten to nine downstairs that Yates wins," remarked Blair with elaborate composure.

This art thou fain to ascertain, and risk a bet with me?

Carlotta's people are putting all the bets on him, apparently, though for the life of me I can't see why.

From this hour he talked and dreamed of nothing but a horse-race; and rising soon to the summit of equestrian reputation, he was constantly expected on every course, divided all his time between lords and jockeys, and, as the unexperienced regulated their bets by his example, gained a great deal of money by laying openly on one horse and secretly on the other.

He never could resist a sure-shot bet, never.

At last he has said: 'Very good, if Cais comes to me, and wishes to be released from the contract, I will annul it; but do not let any Arab think that I abandon the bet through fear of Antar.'