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If it'd rid, instead of me drawin' down after the third pass, I'd 'a' won over thirty thousan' on the original two-bit piece." "Just the same, Shorty, this is a real system." "Huh! You got to show me." "I did show you. Come on with me now, and I'll show you again."
"Not much more'n three thousan', I'm afeared, on a mortgage; cap'tal's kind o' skeery but Tim " "Three thousand dollars!" Laughing hysterically, she fell back in her chair. "I had ought 'a come sooner; an' three thousan' ain't a gre't deal, I don't suppose, here in the city; but it's been spend, spend not that I grutch it an' things ain't so flourishin' as they was.
"Why not let bygones be bygones, an' all of us join forces ag'in' these murderin' heathen? There won't be any too many of us at best Red an' Wison seen more'n two thousan' of the man-eatin' devils.
Then they returned to the Emu bar and had another drink. "Four thousan' bloomin' quid fer a blanky monkey!" said Bill, and he looked dreamily at his companions. "Four thousand quid!" he added. "It's a sin." "Now, supposin' that monkey was to get away! There'd be four thousan' o' th' best tearin' round in th' bush fer anyone t' drop on." "He couldn't," said Mike, "outer that iron cage."
"'Do you still hold to that offer? he axed. "'I'll make bond with my daddy-in-law on it, I said. "'Nuff said, an' Jud was gone. The next day he came back leading the black, slicker an' hence no-counter than ever, if possible. "'Look at him, he said proudly 'a dead match for yourn. Jes' han' me that two an' a half an' take him. You now have a team worth a thousan'.
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."
I feint for 'm, draw his left, duck to the right past it, takin' it across my shoulder, an come up with my right to his jaw. An' he knows the trick. He's hep. He's beaten me to it an' blocked it with his shoulder a thousan' times. But this time he don't. He keeps himself wide open on purpose. Blim! It lands.
"I'm plum' tired out. What makes me tired? Moves. I've ben movin' ever since I was born. I'm tired of movin', an' I ain't goin' to move any more. Remember when I worked in the glass-house? I used to do three hundred dozen a day. Now I reckon I made about ten different moves to each bottle. That's thirty-six thousan' moves a day. Ten days, three hundred an' sixty thousan' moves.
Weighs nigh on to three poun', I'm guessin'." Ralph took the bag and weighed it in his hand. "More," he said. "Ther's fi' poun' o' weight ther'." "Guess them bags together means fifteen to twenty thousan' dollars, sure," said Nick, his eyes shining at the thought. "I don't rightly know," said Ralph. "It's a goodish wad, I 'lows." Nick returned the store to the chest which Ralph relocked.
It's a lucky thing, Paul, that you had me to do the wishin' an' prayin', 'stead o' Shif'less Sol, 'cause then we'd hev walked into black mire a thousan' feet deep. Ef the prayers uv the sinners are answered a-tall, a-tall, they're answered wrong." Shif'less Sol shook his head scornfully.
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