How about it, Bud?
Think you won fair ?" Bud was collecting his money, and he did not immediately answer the challenge.

When he did it was to offer them another race.

He would not, he said, back down from anyone.

He would bet his last cent on little Smoky.

He became slightly vociferative and more than a little vain-glorious, and within half an hour he had once more staked all the money he had in the world.