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The stabs, through their very generosity, are so deep and they come so fast!" Three days before the election each of two thousand voters suddenly found himself in possession of a prized memento one of the renowned bogus double-eagles. It revived the recent vast laugh and concentrated it upon Pinkerton; and Harkness's election was a walk-over.
Consider that at that time San Antone was the hub of the wheel of Fortune, and the names of its spokes were Cattle, Wool, Faro, Running Horses, and Ozone. In those times cattlemen played at crack-loo on the sidewalks with double-eagles, and gentlemen backed their conception of the fortuitous card with stacks limited in height only by the interference of gravity.
In former years I used to keep a little gold by me in order to ascertain for myself exactly the amount of pleasure to be got out of handling it; this being the traditional delight of the old-fashioned miser. It is by no means to be despised. Three or four hundred dollars in double-eagles will do very well to experiment on.
Consider that at that time San Antone was the hub of the wheel of Fortune, and the names of its spokes were Cattle, Wool, Faro, Running Horses, and Ozone. In those times cattlemen played at crack-loo on the sidewalks with double-eagles, and gentlemen backed their conception of the fortuitous card with stacks limited in height only by the interference of gravity.
For the last month I have performed the Wandering Jew all by myself. Now I have company. What shall we do to be jolly?" "Jolly!" with a tone of melancholy surprise. "When should a man be jolly, if he can't when he's nothing to do? I am the slave of gold, you understand. If any rich magician rubs his double-eagles before me, woe is me, if I don't paint!
My purchases consisted of a revolver, a money-belt, in which to carry my small fortune, which I had exchanged into gold double-eagles, a pair of field-glasses, a rubber blanket, a canteen, riding boots, and saddle-bags.
You see this pocket? you've only got to stick your hand in, and you pull it out filled with sovereigns." "Double-eagles, wasn't it?" inquired the captain. "That was what it was!" cried Herrick. "I thought they seemed unusually big, and I remember now I had to go to the money-changers at Charing Cross and get English silver." "O, you went there?" said the clerk. "Wot did you do?
"However, I hope before long to relieve you of your gains." Opening the cash drawer, he cleared it completely of its contents, placing before P. Sybarite a tremendous accumulation of bills, old and new, of all denominations, loose and in packages, together with some ten or twelve golden double-eagles. "I believe you will find that correct," he observed genially.
Rather had they fallen into the way of considering him as a disembodied intelligence, whose sole function was to direct the transmutation of values and credits and resources and opportunities into the creature comforts demanded by the state of life unto which it had please Providence to call them; and their dismay was now such as might occur at the Mint if the great stamp were suddenly and of its own accord to cease its coinage of double-eagles and to sink into a silence of supine idleness.
"'Here's where you get your three for one any child may do it no chance to lose make your bets while the arrow of fortune swings all gents accommodated in amounts from two-bits to double-eagles and bets paid on the nail, says he. "'Red, says Aggy, 'I can double our pile right here let me have the money. I know this game. You'd hardly believe it, but I dug up.
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