Uncle oscar Văn học anh

Scenes: One day his mother and his Uncle Oscar came in when he was on one of his rides.
Oscar: “Hello, you young jockey! Riding a winner?”
Mother: “Aren’t you growing too big for a rocking horse? You’re not a very little boy any longer,
you know.”
Paul: “Well, I got there”
Mother: “Where did you get to?”
Paul: “Where I wanted to go”
Oscar: “That’s right, son! Don’t you stop till you get there. What is the horse’s name?”
Paul: “He doesn’t have a name.”
Oscar: “Gets on without one all right?”
Paul: “Well, he has different names. Ha was called Sansovino last week.”
Oscar: “Sansovino, eh? Won the big race at Ascot. How did you know his name?”
Joan: “He is always talking about horse racing with Bassett”

Scenes: Oscar went and talked to Bassett.
Bassett: “Master Paul comes and asks me about racing, so I can’t do more than tell him, sir”
Oscar: “And does he ever put anything on a horse he thinks will win?”
Bassett: “ Well, I don’t want to give him away. He is a young sport, a fine sport, sir. Would you
mind asking him? He sort of takes a pleasure in it, and perhaps he’d feel I was giving him away,
sir, if you don’t mind.”
Scenes: Oscar went back to his nephew and took him off for a ride in his car.
Oscar: “Paul, do you ever put any money on a horse?”
Paul: “Why, do you think I oughtn’t to?”
Oscar: “Not a bit of it! I thought perhaps you might give me a tip for the Lincoln races next
weekend.”
Paul: “Do you promise you won’t tell anyone?”
Oscar: “I promise, son”
Paul: “Well, then, Daffodil.”
Oscar: “Daffodil, I doubt it, sonny. What about Mirza?
Paul: “I only know the winner. That is Daffodil.”

Paul: “Uncle!”
Oscar: “Yes, son”
Paul: “You won’t let it go any further, will you? I promised Bassett.”
Oscar: “Bassett be damned, young man! What’s he got to do with it?”
Paul: “We are partners from the first. He lent me my first 5 shillings, which I lost. Remember
when you gave me 10 shillings, I started winning with that, so I thought you were very lucky.
You won’t let it go any further, will you?”
Oscar: “I will keep your tip private. Daffodil? How much are you putting on him?”
Paul: “20 pounds, I keep it in reserve”
Oscar: “What are you betting?”
Paul: “300, but it’s between you and me, promise?”
Oscar: “All right, where’s your 300?”
Paul: “Bassett keeps it for me, we are partners.”
Oscar: “What is Bassett putting on Daffodil?”
Paul: “150”
Oscar: “Pennies?”
Paul: “Pounds, Bassett keeps a bigger reserve than I do”
Scenes: Oscar decided to take his nephew with him to the Lincoln races.
Oscar: “Son, I’m putting 20 pounds on Mirza and 5 pounds for any horse you like. What’s your
pick?”
Paul: “Daffodil, uncle
Oscar: “No, not 5 pounds on Daffodil”
Paul: “I should if it was my own 5 pounds”
Oscar: “Good, 5 pounds for me and 5 pounds for you on Daffodil.”
 Cuối đoạn cá cược thì người dẫn chuyện đọc kết quả cuộc đua ngựa: Daffodil first,
Lancelot second, Mirza third.
Scenes: Uncle Oscar took both Bassett and Paul into Richmond Park for an afternoon, and there
they talked.
Bassett: “It's like this, you see, sir. Master Paul would get me talking about racing events, telling

him stories, you know, sir. And he was always wanting to know if I'd made money or if I'd lost.
It's about a year since, now, that I put five shillings on a horse for him. And we lost. Then his


luck turned, with that ten shillings he had from you. We put that on Singhalese. And since that
time, it's been pretty much the same, all things considering. What do you say, Master Paul?
Paul: “We're all right when we're sure. It's when we're not quite so sure that we go down.”
Bassett: “Oh, but we're careful then.”
Oscar: “But when are you sure?”
Bassett: “It's Master Paul, sir. It's as if he had it from heaven. Like Daffodil, now, for the Lincoln.
That was as sure as eggs.”
Oscar: “Did you put anything on Daffodil?”
Bassett: “Yes, sir. I made my bit.
Oscar: “And my nephew?”
Paul: “I made twelve hundred, didn't I, Bassett? I told uncle I was putting three hundred on
Daffodil.”
Bassett: “That's right”
Oscar: “But where's the money?”
Bassett: “I keep it safely locked up, sir. Master Paul can have it any minute he likes to ask for it.
What, fifteen hundred pounds? And twenty! And forty, that is, with the twenty he made on the
course.”
Oscar: “It's amazing!”
Bassett: “If Master Paul offers you to be partners, sir, I would, if I were you; if you'll excuse
me.”
Oscar: “I'd like to see the money”
Paul: “You see, it's all right, uncle, when I'm sure! Then we go strong, for all we're worth. Don't
we Bassett?”
Bassett: “We do that, Master Paul”
Oscar: “And when are you sure?”
Paul: “Oh, well, sometimes I'm absolutely sure, like about Daffodil. And sometimes I have an

idea, and sometimes I don't have any idea, do I, Bassett? Then we're careful, because we mostly
go down.
Oscar: “You do, do you! And when you're sure, like about Daffodil, what makes you sure,
sonny?”
Paul: “Oh, well, I don't know. I'm sure, uncle; that's all.”
Bassett: “It's as if he had it from heaven, sir.”


Oscar: “I should say so!”
Scenes: And when the Leger Cup was coming on.
Paul: “You see! I was absolutely sure of him”
Oscar: “Look here, son, this sort of thing worries me”
Paul: “It needn't, uncle! Perhaps I shan't be sure again for a long time.”
Oscar: “But what are you going to do with your money?”
Paul: “I started it for mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky. So I thought if
I was lucky, it might stop whispering.”
Oscar: “What might stop whispering?”
Paul: “Our house. I hate our house for whispering”
Oscar: “What does it whisper?”
Paul: “Why... why..., I don't know. But it's always short of money, you know.”
Oscar: “I know it son, I know it.”
Paul: “You know people send mother legal papers for money we owe, don't you, uncle?”
Oscar: “I'm afraid I do”
Paul: “And then the house whispers, like people laughing at you behind your back. It's awful,
that is! I thought if I was lucky..”
Oscar: “You might stop it.”
Paul: “What are we doing? I don't want mother to know I was lucky.”
Oscar: “Why not, son?”
Paul: “ She’d stop me.”
Oscar: “I don't think she would”

Paul: “I don't want her to know, uncle.”
Oscar: “All right, son! We'll manage it without her knowing.”
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Oscar: “So she'll have a birthday present of a thousand pounds for five years.”