The sun., 1907-03-31
LIS SURE TO WIN
IL BETTING SYSTEM.
Devised by a Red Porcupine-Thc
Man with All the Money IN the
World Tells About II.

WASHINGTON, March SO.--Hundreds1
Thousandsp You fellows might 40 well tin
that talk about gum change. II doesn't
sound like money to me at all. said Abe
De Brave. the boolkmAker. when q group OF
his fellow layers started to fan over stories
Of winnings and losinRs at the winter tracks.
Fact H. million sounds to me Like the proc
OF book Of cigarette papers ever since got
on the train 70 ride down here.
sIt's o.. 900 900 miles from here to the sun.
isn't it7 Well, I'd only call that days walk
I'm used to the big figures now.
"When got into the chair car at Jersey
City TO be rolled down here for the meeting
there we're only three others In the caboose
Two OF them were big. heavy, wide backed
stodges, and they sat across the aisle from
| me. The one who sat In the chair directlyin
front Of mine had his hair mussed up like
| lot Of cowlicks, an noticed from the rear.
| But when he wheeled his chair around to see
who was when took my seat recognized
him family.
THAT is, I'd seen him around the tracks.
and on the down and back trains to and from
/ the Long Island tracks Didn't know who he
was or anything about him-merely recalled
him a. somebody owning face that I'd seen
floating around the rings and elsewhere
He recognized me too when he wheeled
around. He nodded and grinned. grinned
and nodded back. I didn't notice the YEN
yen light In his lamps Just then.
Il could see that he was for a chaw. He
turned his chair all the way around 50 as
to face me.
s'Goinx DOWN. he asked me.
Yep said l. Might as we'll begin at
| Bennings as wait for Aqueduct. You
goingP'
| "'N-no.' he said kind Of hesitatingly.
Not this meeting. don't want to take
their pocket change away from them. You
zee I've got all the money in the world.
anyhow
Even that didn't make me look very
closely at his map. It sounded like some
new stuff hadn't heard, 80 Istalled.
well. that's a lot o money, l. said.
| Worry you carrying IL aroundF
-'Oh, not 80 much, he answered airtly.
You see, l won't have cash. What's the
use2 l own 1t all.
so just carry a check book and when
want few millions all I've got TO do Is
| to drop in at any bank-any bank, any
where-and scratch a check. Makes it
| soft for me, you see. All the money. eveEy-
where. Is mine. and all I've got to do Is to
dip in.
"Of course the bookmakers have a few
stray dollars left-a few hundred thou
sand all told. say. but don't call that
money. II might be money for you. but
not for me. However, II you'd care to
take those few hundred thousand away
| from them at Bennings, why I'd
Say told him then. blow that smoke
! out OF the window-the conductor won't
like the smell Of hop.
| mo, honest, l mean it, he protested.
You might as well have it. know the
way to take it all away from them. I've
cleaned them all over the earth, and ought
to know. It's the shut the eyes system
| Fine said I, not exactly hep even
then but beginning to suspect something.
Amy system can be played with the eyes
shut lust as well as with the eyee open.
Most system players haven't any eyes
! at all, like those fishes born in the Mann
moth Cave. That's the rea son they're
system players
| But can see the name Of the winner
with my shut eyes and l can teach you
| the trick in three minutes he came back,
and he became fushy and panty and feverish
looking and bel, an to suspect things more
| than ever.
Shoot IT, said I. Tn listening. But
| I'm booking now, myself. You do mt
want me to clean myself with your system,
| do your
@'YoL won't need TO-, he replied
earnestly, but there was a queer blazs
in his wicks this time that told me things
plain enough. Here, it's this way;
"I came upon the way four years ago
| in the middle Of the night. A rcd porcuplne
with red quilts oans and sat on the foot
| board Of my bed ons night HOuc years ago
and told ms about it,
II hope you didn't get stuck said l,
trying to chuck some gayness into the
situation, but hs was too busy 20 hear.
This red porcupins,' he went on, sat
| there on the footE o8rd drumming on a
mandolin and talking to me. was playing
them pretty hard at thnt time, and losing
right along. Didn't have shoe shine change
when the rod poroupine came along.
| 'Wcll, the quilted one told me to shut
| my eyes Eight. did. I'd no sooner shut
| them than / saw the name Of horse in blue
letters fourteen feet high. The red por-
cupine told me that one would win the
next day-and then he thrummed some
more on his mandolin.
Then he told me that all I'd have to do
from that time on would be to go to bed
and close my eyes and Id'see the name
Of winner for the next day in the same
kind OF tall blue letters, and that none
OF the winners would be less than 10 to In
the betting
Dreamy porcupine,' l got in there.
Meant to save you the trouble Of doping
them, Of course. That's the SYSTEM
That's it, he painted. That's how I
came to get all the money on earth, except
the few hundred thousands--maybe it'll
foot up a silly million-that I'm going to
throw your way
That's good Of you said l, and then
took a peek out OF the slants Of my eyes
to see whether the two stodges in the
chairs across the aisle were still there
didn't want them to get far away. Did
you begin right away after that first visit
Of the pink porcupineT
Red, not pink-he was a red porcupine,
he corrected. Yes, began at Sheepshead
Bay the next day, visa that first winner
I'd seen the name Of in the tall blue letters
when the rcd poroupine sat on the footbOard
Of my bed for the first time.
'T only had two dollars to bet with
after buying my badge. The winner I'd