Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16

| right the fifth time. He at length had me
furrowed so deeply that | simply had to
take ms play on the chance of getting some
of it back from him. l figured it that his
run couldn't last indefinitely. and that
when he stopped selecting the high card
successfully he'd go to pieces all of a sud
den, and that then I'd draw back some of
the thousands that he'd pried from me.
The cub was square enough to ask me
one day. before the betting had opened on
the first race, if 1 wanted his play any
longer.
81 seem to be taking you right along
the whelp said with a grin, and If you'd
rather have me get it down somewhere else
why. all you've got to do is to say So
Don't you dream of giving me any such
a fan that 1 told him, hurriedly. You
cling right along to my book l want some
of ii back anyway. You've Stung me about
500, 000 worth up to the present writing.
figure, and I'd feel all gummed up if you
stopped shoveling it my way now and re-
moved whatever get-hunk chance L may
have with you
THE youngster replied that he'd string
along on my sheet as long as | continued
to see it that way, and that's what he did.
Six weeks later he had strung along with
me to the tune of quarter of a hundred
thousand IN addition to what he d already
pulled out of my cashiers valise, and still
with no sign of the tide turning against
him.
There was no nnding out where he got
his information. He appeared to have got
on pretty chummy terms with number of
big trainers, one particularly man who
wasn't second to any trainer in this coun-
try, and who was on visiting terms at my
house. Every time this trainer sent one to
the post. either for a stake or a purse, the
one-time newsboy who was whanging
would load up my sheet with it and he'd
draw down these bets often that he made
me feel like quitting and going fishin'. By
| wi a
busted rudder toward a lee shore, and it
was the newsboy plunger whose continued
patronage had solicited who had made me
tie Patsy. AS near as | could double-entry
it out he had taken me for about $4,000
and by that time | was thinking about be-
ginning life all over again.
Il had gouged all of the sinking fund out
of the bank, and the final wallop that the
youngster handed me, combined with some
other jolts that floated my way about the
same time, scorched my satchel so that l
wasn't any longer in shape to sit on the
edge of booking stool and handle the big
money without taking a welcher's chance,
which wasn't my game.
so there wasn't anything else for me to
do but to crawl down from the stool and
see what l could do by playing them from
the ground. l did this with whole lot of
| bored airiness of manner, telling the bunch
| that l was tired sitting in a cramped
! position during the running of the races.
and that l wanted to move around the ring
and get the use of my legs.
L had about SloU0o lett when L stopped
| booking and started to what | could do
with a dopeist's pencil. but l didn't have
enough luck to keep a stray mutt out of the
| dogcatcher's wagon. Nothing would stand
up for me to the wire.
|
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| "One evening, along toward the middle of
| September l was down to a thousand
| dollar note, and | felt pretty blue when l
got home 1 hadn't said a word to my wife
! about the way the game had been flocking
| for me. When l reached home that even
| ing with only the ten-century bill, however
! / felt that it was about along to me to let
her know where I-both of US, in fact
stood
Try not to make any up-stage faces
/ over it, my dear l said to her cheerilv
| after dinner, but guess it's case of hack
| to the old ruined manor for us twain.
They've tied the to me, and I'm run
| ming away from the poundmaster so fast
that I'm just ricocheting from corner