"I should pwonounce it about the wohst specimen extahnt." "Maybe you'd like to bet on it ?" said Loring, flaunting the big bills.
Wyatt was evidently nettled.

"Weally, you aw wong--I assuah you," he said stiffly.
"If you aw--pawdon me--quite able to lose that money without--ah--inconvenience I am weady to covah it, at least, as fah as what I have with me goes." "Done!" said Loring.

This was not so bad, after all.
"How much ?...

Aw! Seventeen thousand.Exactly.The bet is made, gentlemen.

I--ah--propose that we wing the bell foh the pwopwietah and, shahl we say, the clahk, to act as judge and stakeholdeh." "That will be satisfactory," said Loring.