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"Wa'al, at the present price," said David, "I think about four thousan' barrels would give ye enough to eat fer a spell, an' mebbe leave ye a few barrels to dispose of if you should happen to strike a feller later on that wanted it wuss 'n you did." John opened his eyes a little. "I should only have a margin of a dollar and a quarter," he said.
"Yours, Steve!" he said then, a quick, palpitating note of pure joy in his cry. "Blind as I was, I put it over for you! Here's ten thousan', Steve. An' the chance to get ol' Number Ten back." Packard was taking the wallet proffered him. Suddenly Royce jerked it back. "Let me make sure again," he said hastily. "Let me be dead sure I've made good."
He cashed in thirty-five hundred dollars, and Shorty carried the dust home to the cabin. "Now's the time to jump the game," Shorty advised, as he sat on the edge of his bunk and took off his moccasins. "You're seven thousan' ahead. A man's a fool that'd crowd his luck harder." "Shorty, a man would be a blithering lunatic if he didn't keep on backing a winning system like mine."
"Failin' to undherstand our civilization," said Mr. Dooley. "Ye see, it was this way. This is th' way it was: Gin'ral Garshy with wan hundherd thousan' men's been fightin' bravely f'r two years f'r to liberyate Cubia. F'r two years he's been marchin' his sivinty-five thousan' men up an' down th' island, desthroyin' th' haughty Spanyard be th' millyons.
"Say, by " Uncle Peabody paused. "He must a stole up here and heard me tellin' that " he paused again and went on: "Say, I wouldn't 'a' had him hear that for a thousan' dollars. I don't know how to behave myself when I get in the woods. If you're goin' to travel with a boy like that you've got to be good all the time ye can't take no rest or vacation at all whatever."
A fellow could live in the city a thousan' years an' not get such chances. It beats China lottery." He stood up. "I 'm goin' out to water Hazel an' Hattie, feed 'm, an' bed 'm down. I'll eat soon as I come back." The two women were regarding each other with shining eyes, each on the verge of speech when Billy returned to the door and stuck his head in.
Now I'm going to take this town-site, break it up in parcels, and sell it to a lot of sane people who live over in Dawson." "Huh! All Dawson's still laughing at you an' me an' them eggs. You want to make 'em laugh some more, hey?" "I certainly do." "But it's too danged expensive, Smoke. I helped you make 'em laugh on the eggs, an' my share of the laugh cost me nearly nine thousan' dollars."
David he thought he see a chance if put out agents an' make a great deal o'money. It did look jest as easy as slidin' downhill but when we come slide wall, we found out we was at the bottom o the hill 'stid o' the top an' it wan't reel good slidin. He paid five thousan' dollars fer the right o'ten counties.
Half a million! an' the best I could figger it was a hundred thousan'. Go on an' read the rest of it." They read on silently, their heads side by side, the untouched coffee growing cold; and ever and anon one or the other burst forth with some salient printed fact. "I'd like to seen Metzner's face when he opened the safe at the store this mornin'," Jim gloated.
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