Penny Dreadfuls, 1897 · page 16 of 36
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a: : ourse we habe to look| ‘‘Dothese touters live here in Jamaica ?’’ ss out fer their feed. lasked Trim. ss ** What I’m thinking of is the vw ‘‘Some of them do, and there are quite _ shave to take care that no mean tricks are|a number of them who are lodging here © i done by outsiders. |just because I brought my horses out ———s«**‘Nlow, there’s my horse Mephisto, for| here.” «example. ‘How many horses have you ‘He is going to run next week anda your stables?” great many have picked him for awinner.| ‘There are about twenty there now.’’ Don’t you see that if that horse can} ‘*May I look them over?”? be disabled just previous to the race,| ‘Certainly, come along.”? ___ there’s a chance for crooked bookmakers} ‘They entered the stable and O’Brien to clear a big stake?” | pointed out one horse after another giv- Seat. ok eey a. see that.”’ | ling the names and bringing Trim at last ee ‘Well, I’m afraid of them all the time, | to the side of Menhisen _ -——s they try to bribe my stable hands, they | ‘Why hello,’? said Trim suddenly, _ try to my jockeys.’’ 4 | ‘‘ Mephisto looks very much like a horse EE he | pre: ume you trust all the men em- I saw in one of the stalls back there.”’ aac ee | ployed by you, don’t you?” | ‘*Ves,’’ responded O’Brien, ‘‘that was | Oh yes, so far as I trust anybody; but| Bantry.” ee CS” S es are surrounded all the time by | le 6g Bantry a: good ae ?? Bios 1 OWS _ who are trying to get a squint at | MT ent worth his feed.’ beg and Sig: ee OF Te | ‘“That’s funny for he looks ; almost ex- — Me et ae ot My ee Mephisto.” me “Oh, they’re touters most of them. | ea d O'Bi en, cae it SE A é z “the fact | | They come around trying to get tips | that it Bantry. has a white te aS wi =] ich they ele sell afterward at the race]... — tem ptuously, ‘lof got in to-day 2? sakes Trim, “Yes, he was around this forenoor | Which way was he going >? | °T saw , him 9 0 t toward Jamaica _ | ‘|tha n an hour ago.”’ a ‘$T think I will go and look him ap” 3 As Trim walked back to the villace he — Tri iwas thinking of a good deal bes ae I a at y eae. ieee hat O’Brien’s fears for his ae : to, Soneder Alephisto >is taken out for exer-|_ He could not get the fate ot C , . _..1.| Brewer out of his head. 90 King ) “That young man, fe he on rh a s le afing under a tree, jonly = won a Dect stake from : << afraid of them and I keep my | 10r I eir way as much as pos-| ie J —_— \e lined s _* 7 { ~ ‘ - poe) hte eee ued we A hi a rf * —_ tt s & | A F ' 7 ~ , .= * n | myik eri '(- Fr, | ; ‘ i | in i. a P - a. > ae 8 Py a be ee 4 T she?” | is « of a —_.» & ee