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Show New Dockstader Stories. "Sam was looking pretty bad, and I said to him, 'Here, Sam, take this ?5 and go and see ray friend, Dr. Walter Gilday, on Thirty-sixth street. He will fix you up.' The next day I saw Sam again, and I asked him if he had been to see the doctor. He said, 'No, sir; I don't want to take no chances with that feller. He's a long shot.' 'A long shot, Sam?' I asked. 'Yes, sir; a long shot, for I saw out in front of his house a sign reading "Dr. Gilday, 12 to 1." ' " w "Sam is a great plunger. He bet on a hurdle race the other day, but at the first jump the jockey was thrown off. The horse continued on, and came in first. Sam ran around to the bookmaker book-maker and asked for the money he said he had won. 'But,' said the bookmaker, 'you didn't win. The jockey was thrown at the first jump.' 'I know that,' said Sam, 'but I was not backing the jockey; I was backing tho horse. Produce." |