The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19
"OoRNUBLERs" AT THE RACES
Innocent Young Ladies Who Bet with
Strangers Money

Innocent Young Ladies Who Bet with
Strangers Money
From the Chicago Post
"Cornublers make me tired" said the
sport. 'but guess they've got to be put up
with. The ca tern tracks swarm with
them, but never knew you had them here
before until yesterday"
what is a cornublern one ventured to
inquire.
There's one,n said the sport, ard he
pointed backward with his thumb to reg
ular dream Of a girl who sat four rows back
in the grand and.
She was regular sweetheart of the sun,
was that girl. She had DARK, "langorous''
eyes that beamed with love and innocence.
Her face was one of those sweet, spirituelle
sort of faces, soft and refined, rather pale,
with dash of olive and with that indefina-
BILE far-away brand of expression that the
French call predestined.
Her frock, too, was a poem of prettiuess,
frills and hounces and fuckers and puffs of
soft bluey gray mixed up with some sort of
undecided green that seemed laid on with a
brush in places it would look most effective,
and her hat was as light as a butterfiy's
wing and harmonized so charmingly with
the rest of the OUTFIT.
In fact, it was patent at glance that the
sport must have been man of exceed
ingly bad taste if the girl he pointed to
was anything like fair sample of a COR
nubler.
You just watch her and see if she amt
| cornubing now," be continued; "she may
not catch on this time. but she will sure pop
the next. How could she help it with so
| many jays around, anyhow
"Cornubling IS one of the neatest fakes
that has ever been conceived by the imagi-
nation of woman. There's nothing wicked
enough to get her run in about it, there is
nothing fagrantly improper, nothing to
| find fault with if the business comes out all
right, but it is game in which the cor
| muller can never be loser
NOW, just look at her Sweet as a
| pictute in a $50 frame and innocent as a
blind kitten Well, she cornubed me not
| thirty minutes ago, and nothing but the
girls own blind luck saved me-
81 was talking to some friends of mine in
the stand aud one of the ladies as ed me to
| put IS on Montpelier Well, of course. nv
lady there is pretty as peach and a fellow
couldn't help taking look at her now aud
then | started off with the bet and when
was passing her by, in fact when | had
passed her. she called out sweet as taffy:
"'Please, sir, will you put $40 on Texas
Girl for meH
what could say but yess But though
i waited minute she only just kept on smil-
L
that I'd struck a cornubler. Well, as luck
would have it the little mare won and got
back the money had staked for her; but if
Texas Girl got left where would my X have
beens In the soup, young man, in the
soup!
IA cornubler bets with a strangers
money. She knows she is pretty enough to
make a sport risk an X in an effort to get
acquainted with her, and she looks too limo.
| cent for jay to smell a rat. You must
| look innocent to make a good cornubler.
| When you bet with a strangers dust the
odds are away up in favor of your not
dropping anything. Now, you must go up
to those friends of mine there, and tell 'em
| l sent you to take their commissions, and
see if the girl don't try to cornuble you"
One went up; one couldn't help trying to
| catch a smile from the vision with spirituee
face and sad predestinee expression. She
glanced-just one glance she glanced-a
glance of enravishing deliciousness. The
sports friends decided upon their choice and
one sailed off to lay the cash ON Spalding.
Passing the entrancer she hung her head
moment, then looking up a moment
isped;
"'Please, sir, will you do me favorr
Anything, madam
"'Well, my escort has left me, and /
want you to put $40 on Tom Stevens for
me- Will your
|
"'Thauk you
She smiled sweetly and nodded. What
was a fellow to dol Better risk it, one
thought. She may ante up, after all. To
prevent accidents, however, the $40 was di-
vided on the win and place.
Tom Stevens lost by length, with Vex-
ator winning, but before going to the ring
one thought it might be as well TO see what
the cornubler had TO say.
She fancied one had backed Tom STRAIGHT
and was all disconsolate in her affection.
81 am so ashamed, sir" she said, but
have left my money at home! Would it do
tomorrow? Night she send it to meP'
Thoughts of that S25 won over Texas Girl
came up and.so all apologies were accepted.
The charge of cornubhng was proved true.
What was the good of telling her of the
place bet on Stevens when the $40 was
savedi As yet no news has been heard from
the lady.
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