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ask for points. One in particular came out as a 

 challenger. By a curious chance I had happened to 

 see him playing one afternoon in Sydney. He gave 

 me a ball and owed two, and then they tried to bet. 

 I had to back myself for a trifle, and as it happened 

 never played better, and the balls ran well for me. 

 After a little while one or two who had my stuff began 

 backing me with others in the room ; at all events, I got 

 away with about fourteen pounds, the sweetest money 

 I ever won in my life, and the hundred of course. 





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