“Why, of course I do, Bob; I’ve made a stake lots of times.”
“And lost lots of times, too, I s’pose.”
“Well, that’s because I didn’t have enough capital.”
“But answer me this, Tom Flannery,” said Bob, pointedly: “You admit you did get wiped out at bettin’, do you?”
“Well, yes, I s’pose I did, Bob.”
“And you’ll get broke again, if you go at it. I tell you, Tom, they all get left, them that bets on horse racing.”
“But don’t some of them make slats of money? Answer me that.”
“They don’t make no money what sticks to ’em.”
“What do you mean by that, Bob? I don’t understand.”
“I mean that they lose it the same way they make it, so it don’t stick to ’em. Do you see?”