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There you are. Pick the queen, some one of you. Put your money on the queen of hearts. You can turn the card yourself. What? Nobody? Don't be pikers. Let us have a little sport. Stake a dollar. Why, you'd toss a dollar down your throat you'd lay a dollar on a cockroach race you'd bet that much on a yellow dog if you owned him, just to show your spirit.
There's no fly cops nor Pinks could do the work I do. They're pikers compared to me. They chase petty-larceny cases and kick in doors. I wouldn't stoop to what they do. It's being mixed up the way I am with the problems of two governments that catches me." He added magnanimously, "You see something of that yourself."
"For good! For whose good?" inquired Bobby. "Mine," responded Clarence. "This town's gone to the bow-wows. It's in the hands of a lot of pikers. There's no chance to make big money any more." "Yes, I know," said Bobby dryly; "I had something to do with that, myself." "It was a fine lot of muck-raking you did," charged Clarence. "Well, I'll give you another item for your paper.
After half an hour of underwater work we came near enough the surface for our fighting periscope to stick twenty inches out of the water and searched the lonely horizon for a ship to attack. It was not long before we sighted a mine trawler, steaming for the harbour, and speeded up to overtake her. "Pikers!" said our commander, as we circled twice around the trawler; "they can't find us."
"Ever since his grandson arrived grandpa has been paying attention to business." "He's dissatisfied with his own and our efforts thus far. He thinks he's been a piker and that you and I are his first-assistant pikers. He has ships on the brain." "He's getting pretty cocky," Matt agreed; "but, at that, I guess he has a license to be."
I was sick of the saloon business, anyhow, and when I got his number, I was proud to have been licked by him. Do you get me? Proud! And I says, I'm his friend for life and I'll just keep an eye on the pikers who are trying to do him. "And I have. You know me, boys. You know that after the priest and the doctor it's the saloonkeeper that knows a man's number.
Gee, ain't that an awful huge lot of money for one poor little merry-merry to be burdened with! The lawyers sent that first hundred along to show that they are not pikers, and said that the rest would be along in a few days. Gosh! I won't know what to do with it. I can't get that much in my little lisle thread bank without spoiling the contour of that new gown effect I am going to be poured into.
"We do," Walter answered, "and as we have the only written rules, that same fact of the back door may stand us in well." "Pikers!" Jack called them with a laugh. "But will you observe the Hys! They are going to rebuild!"
George B. Cowper, Assistant Superintendent. Others present were called upon and made appropriate remarks, and the Pikers' Club, an organization composed of attaches of the building, furnished the musical part of the entertainment. Vice-President Berri then presented Mr.
Well, anyhow, we'd go to that place, and there'd be a band playing, and the electric fans would go round and round, and Johnnie Doe and I and the two most beautiful ladies would put it all over the other pikers there." Young Benham gave a little sigh of pleasure and excitement.
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