Evens or odds on Lady Mary!" "That's Colonel Dickinson," said Corson.

"He comes around every year to play the races here and most generally he picks winners.

But today he's gone wrong.

His eye has been took by the legs of them Coles hosses and he's gone crazy betting on 'em.

Well, he gets plenty of takers!" Indeed, Colonel Dickinson was stopped right and left to record wagers.
"I got down a little bet myself, this morning, agin his Lady Mary." Corson chuckled at the thought of such easy money.
"What makes you so sure ?" asked Marianne, for even if she were lucky enough to get the mares she felt that from Corson she could learn beforehand the criticisms of Lew Hervey.
"So sure?
Why anybody with half an eye--" here he remembered that he was talking to a lady and continued more mildly.