Blinky Bill

Algy and his mother were united, and backed horses together happily ever after, and sometimes out in the back yard of their palatial mansion they hand the empty bottles, free of charge, to a poor old broken-down bottle-O, called Blinky Bill.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

As soon as Blinky Bill recognised his visitor, he was delighted.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Down in a poverty-stricken part of the city lived Blinky Bill, the horse-dealer.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

It did not take long to convince Algy that he would be better off as a son to a wealthy lady than as a jockey, subject to the fiendish caprices of Blinky Bill.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

The bookies thought that Blinky Bill had sold them, and they discarded him for ever.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Blinky Bill had got down to the very last pitch of desperation when he saw the advertisement mentioned at the end of last chapter.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Both these things Mr. Smythers did; and, though he bought the pony at a high price, yet the insult sank deep into the heart of Blinky Bill.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Here enters another of our dramatis personae -- Blinky Bill, prosperous once more.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Instead of listening to all that Blinky Bill said, and disbelieving it at his leisure, he stopped his talk.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Then there's Bill Bronson -- as stout a lark as you've seed for many a day -- now, as he's blind of one eye and can hardly see out o 't'other, we calls him Blinky Bill, and he

The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1835