"You seemed to play out all in a minute."
"And that is just what I did do. The pace was too hot for me, and I just about collapsed. Those fellows are good swimmers, no two ways about that."
"Bah! I could have beaten them with ease."
"I'd like to see you do it."
"Do you know I lost six dollars on that race," went on Flapp, after a pause.
"Who won the money"?
"Songbird Powell."
"How did you come to put up such an odd figure, Lew"?
"I bet a dollar even first, and then, when I felt certain you would win, I gave him odds of five to one. I was a chump."
"Well, I did my best—honestly I did," returned Jackson, who hated to have his crony lose.