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Show Wanted to Be 8ure. A Scotchman who went to an English Eng-lish race course staked n sovereign. Tho horso ho backed proved a winner, win-ner, and ho went to tho "bookie" to claim his winnings. Tho sporting man begrudglngly handed him fivo sovereigns. sover-eigns. Tho Scot looked nt each ono very carefully beforo placing It In his j pocket. "Well," snld tho bookie, with ' a snnrl, "aro you afraid they'ro bad?" I "Oh, no," snld the Scotsman; "but I wns Just looking to milk' suro tho bod yln I cio'd yo wlsna among them." Now York rlh""" |