Sharps, flats, gamblers, and racehorses . you, and youll put them on. Comeand have a bit of dinner with me, and well go in styleto the show. Lakey demurred, but there was norefusal, for Dick became insistent. The seats were farback, bordering on the pit. The first act was over andone of Lakeys pals in the front row of the cheaperseats cried: Lord love us, if that aint old Lakeysitting with the toffs; all in splendid dress too. Thenhe shouted: Cheero, Lakey ! Ow dyer feel ? Feelas if I were doing six munphs, was the disconsolatereply. Dick Dunn had always a fixed idea as to how hewould spend hi
Sharps, flats, gamblers, and racehorses . you, and youll put them on. Comeand have a bit of dinner with me, and well go in styleto the show. Lakey demurred, but there was norefusal, for Dick became insistent. The seats were farback, bordering on the pit. The first act was over andone of Lakeys pals in the front row of the cheaperseats cried: Lord love us, if that aint old Lakeysitting with the toffs; all in splendid dress too. Thenhe shouted: Cheero, Lakey ! Ow dyer feel ? Feelas if I were doing six munphs, was the disconsolatereply. Dick Dunn had always a fixed idea as to how hewould spend his evening, which was an important partof the day to him, and it must be said that whateverthe luck had been he always came up cheery. To-wards the end he never seemed to have much goodfortune. I met him outside his house at Molesey oneSaturday afternoon, and asked him how he got on atSalisbury. The expenses, he said, were forty-ninepounds ten shillings, and I won forty-nine pounds—ifI get it all. Its always on the wrong side. That 274. la re nee HaiUy. Xew market The late Dick Du II THE LATE DICK DUNN about describes his experiences in the last few yearsof his Hfe. But, despite this, would he ever takeadvantage of those he knew? Not on your life!1 remember once at Gatwick, of which I was a memberfor many years, going across to the lower end of therails where he stood that day—it was an infrequentj^itch—and said: What will you lay me Sona ? —that wasnt the name of the horse though. He didnttake the slightest notice, and I repeated the question,but he was still quite deaf to me. I added with someasperity: I asked you for thirty pounds to five poundsSona. But still he looked at everjrthing and everyonesave myself. I began to think that it was a questionof credit, but that couldnt be, for the five-pound notehad been much in evidence. Then I said, not to bebalked: Take this fiver and put me down his breath he said : Will you go away ? AndI took the office. The fi
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