1 98 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



George. Done anything ? " '* Yes, 

 tenner on that rotten Garland, and just 

 got result wire ; he's beat. He's in the 

 last race too, and they may run him 

 again, so I'm going to wire and cry off 

 that. I can't afford to lose ;^20 over that 

 crock to-day; I've been having a bad 

 time." In the last race there were three 

 runners, with a long odds-on chance 

 favourite ; but Garland started at 100 to 8, 

 and won easily, so that second wire lost 

 my friend ;^i25, and George took a 

 three days' booze on the strength of it. 

 Garland belonged to Mr. Savage, a 

 Lewes sportsman, who previously owned 

 Adanapaar, a very well-bred and useful 

 sort of horse, on whom, however, I 

 dropped ^300 one day, and his owner 

 four sovereigns. 



I won my first bet, I remember so 

 well, when I was at school at Lincoln. 



