I know the dead man now: Sam Blake, tipster and member of the Pentacle Club.
The lad, in the power of the tipster Blake, had seen through his disguise, and in the quarrel that must have followed had murdered him!
But that chap's a pal of mine, first class tipster he is, too.
That chap Blake did me a good turn once, bit of a tipster myself, but not a patch on him, dontcher know.
No man should be allowed to qualify as a tipster unless he has taken a degree at one of the Universities.
The ideal tipster would at once be a great historian a great antiquary, a great zoologist, a great mathematician, and a man of profound common-sense.
One morning we were alarmed to see in the Morning Telegraph, on the page opposite our own daily effort, the advertisement of a new tipster who called himself "Dan Smith.
From that moment the Morning Telegraph, which for a short period had been refusing all tipster advertising, resumed the acceptance of such business and has continued that policy up to this day.
If the horse won and there were few responses to the advertisement it would be convincing on the point that there was no money in the tipster branch of the horse-racing game.
The next tipster on the list goes farther than this.
It is possibly in this last sense that the tipster uses the word.
Occasionally are appended to the advertisements gentle remonstrances and reminders that the confidence the tipster reposed in his patroniser seems to have been misplaced.
Leicester-square is not the only advertising tipsterwho professes to be “in the swim,” and on that account to be in a position to act as a traitor to his friends, and the benefactor of the strange public.
