The Rocking Horse Winner
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- I won't think much about them at all, mother. You needn't worry. I wouldn't worry, mother, if I were you.
- Well, you see, mother, till I can have a real horse, I like to have some sort of animal about, he always keeps me company.
- Promise you won't think so much about horse racing and events, as you call them!
- Okay then and surely, you're too big for a rocking-horse!
- The Derby was drawing near, and the boy grew more and more tense. He hardly heard what was spoken to him, he was very weak. His mother started to really worry about him. Sometimes, for a short time, she would feel a sudden anxiety about him that was almost painful. She wanted to go to him at once, and know he was safe.
- Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town. She had one of these feelings of anxiety about Paul while she was there. She had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone to the house. Bassett was surprised to be called in the night.
- So Uncle Oscar signed the agreement, and Paul's mother received the whole five thousand. Thensomething very strange happened. The voices in the house suddenly went mad, like the sound ofhundreds of frogs on a spring evening.
- I leave it to you, son.
- I'm sure to know for the Grand National; or the Lincoln; or else the Derby. I'm sure to know for one of them.
- Oh, let her have it, then! We can win some more with the rest of the money.
- What do you think, uncle?
- The Grand National had come and gone by and he had not "known." He lost a hundred pounds. It was soon summer, and he looked worried as the time came for the Lincoln. But even for the Lincoln he didn't "know". He lost another fifty pounds. He looked even more worried and started to act strangely, as if something was going to explode in him.
- The voicesscreamed and seemed to shake the house among the flowers and the new furniture. "There must bemore money!" they cried. "Oh! There must be more money. Now, now...now! There must be moremoney. More than ever!" It frightened Paul terribly.
- I couldn't possibly go before the Derby, mother!
- I've got to know for the Derby! I've got to know for the Derby!
- Let it alone, son! Don't you bother about it!
- You'd better go the seaside for a holiday. Wouldn't you like to go to the seaside? I think you'd better
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