Bookie goes nuts with rocks

A bookie was picked up in a raid and thrown into the clink. A while he went nuts and was transferred to a lunatic asylum. Since none of the inmates had any money, they used pebbles to back their choices and the bookie did fine. In no time at all, he had all the pebbles in the place.

Then, one day, one of the fellows staggered up to the bookie with a big boulder on his shoulder. "Nothin' doin'!" screamed the daft bookie as he refused the bet. "With that big rock-you must know something!"