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Nueces County people regarded this guest chamber as fit for a prince. McGuire showed his eyeteeth at it. He took out his nickel and spun it up to the ceiling. "T'ought I was lyin' about the money, did ye? Well, you can frisk me if you wanter. Dat's the last simoleon in the treasury. Who's goin' to pay?"
This may sound like a steer, but it's straight." Hopalong thought for a minute and then leaned on the cigar case: "I reckon I'll take about a dozen of yore very best cigars, Charley. Got any real high-toned brands?" "Cortez panatella two for a simoleon," Chancy replied. "But, seein' that it's you, I'll throw off a dollar on a dozen.
If you gives the colt another chance with my boy up, he shows 'em somethin'. Then you can get a price fur him. "'Do what you like with him, says Ike. 'But I don't pay out another simoleon on him! I'm through right now! "'Give me half what he wins his next out 'n' I'll take a chance with him, I says. "'You're on, says Ike. 'But you pay the entrance.
'See that pile, my friend? That's all like yourn, sez he. 'It's worth about one simoleon a ton at th' coast. They use it for ballast." "Aw! But this what I saw was gold!" exploded Tex. "So was mine, for a while!" laughed Frenchy, nodding to the bartender for another round. "Well, we're tired of punchin' cows! Ride sixteen hours a day, year in an' year out, an' what do we get?
Nueces County people regarded this guest chamber as fit for a prince. McGuire showed his eyeteeth at it. He took out his nickel and spun it up to the ceiling. "T'ought I was lyin' about the money, did ye? Well, you can frisk me if you wanter. Dat's the last simoleon in the treasury. Who's goin' to pay?"
We've grafted a dollar whenever we saw one that had a surplus look to it. But we never went after the simoleon in the toe of the sock under the loose brick in the corner of the kitchen hearth. There's an old saying you may have heard 'fussily decency averni' which means it's an easy slide from the street faker's dry goods box to a desk in Wall Street.
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