'Sure he ain't.

It's Pete Kelly, of course--Silver Pete.

But what are you givin' us?
Are you bettin' on the race, or ain't you ?' "Well, Jonadab understood that.

He bristled up like a brindled cat.
If there's any one thing the Cap'n is down on, it's gamblin' and such--always exceptin' when he knows he's won already.

You've seen that kind, maybe.
"'Young feller,' he says, perkish, 'I want you to know that me and my friend ain't the bettin' kind.