ARDOUR IN BETTING.
Two gentlemen at a tavern, having summoned a waiter, the poor fellow had hardly sntered, vrhen he fell down in a fit of apop lexy. " He's dead!" exclaimed one. " He'll come to I" replied the other. " Pead ! for five hundred."
" Done I" retorted the second,
Tho noise and confusion which followed brought up the landlord, who called to fetch a doctor.
" No, no I We must have no interference here." " Why ?" said the landlord. " There's a bet on." " But, sir, I shall lose a very valuable servant."
"Never mind you can put him in the bill 1"
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9921, 5 February 1894, Page 4
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100ARDOUR IN BETTING. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9921, 5 February 1894, Page 4
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