[Thankful’s Inheritance by Joseph C. Lincoln]@TWC D-Link bookThankful’s Inheritance CHAPTER IX 37/88
Why, Darius Holt is cal'latin' to make money tomorrow.
He's got ten dollars bet on Exie B. in the second race and--" "Kenelm Parker! Is THAT what you want to go to that Cattle Show for? To bet on horse trots! To gamble!" "Aw, dry up.
How'd I gamble? You don't let me have money enough to put in the collection box Sundays, let alone gamblin'.
I have to shove my fist clear way down to the bottom of the plate whenever they pass it for fear Heman Daniels'll see that I'm only lettin' go of a nickel.
Aw, Hannah, have some sense, won't you! I'd just as soon go to that Fair alone as not.
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