"The price will probably be short; but I look on it as an investment." "You can't invest a hundred dollars," argued Gamble.
"You don't mean to say that a hundred's all you have in the world!" returned Loring.

"I thought you'd saved a good deal more than that out of the wreck." "I did; but my brother was broke," replied Gamble carelessly, and stopped in front of a blackboard.

The price on Nautchautauk was one and a half to two.

"I don't want a bet," he remarked, shaking his head at the board; "I need an accident.

I wonder if that goat Angora has horns and a beard ?" "People try fifty-to-one shots just before they cut their throats," warned Loring.
"Hide my safety-razor then.