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In thim days our fav'rite spoort was playin' solytare, winnin' money fr'm each other, an' no wan th' worse off. Ivry-body was invious iv us. We didn't care f'r th' big game goin' on in th' corner. Whin it broke up in a row we said: 'Gintlemen, gintlemen! an' maybe wint over an' grabbed somebody's stake. But we cudden't stand it anny longer.
'THAT I CALL INDEPENDENCE. He was in great spirits, the old man, he was so proud of winnin' the race, and puttin' the leake into the New Yorkers, he looked all dander.
"Now, that was the real goods of a hunch, Smoke! How'd I know it? There's no tellin'. I just knew you'd win. Why, if that dollar of yourn'd fell on any other number it'd won just the same. When the hunch is right, you just can't help winnin'." "Suppose it had come 'double naught'?" Smoke queried, as they made their way to the bar. "Then your dollar'd been on 'double naught," was Shorty's answer.
"You absurd youth!" says she, liftin' both hands protestin', but failin' to smother that smile. And say, when it's aimed straight at you so you get the full benefit, that's some winnin' smile of hers sort of genuine and folksy, you know! It got me. Why, I felt like I'd been put on her list of old friends. And I grins back. "It wa'n't a case of another party, was it?" says I.
I don't want to drink; but they offer to treat me, old friends do, and Samantha is afraid I shall yield to the temptation; and I am most afraid of it myself. Yes, politics is dangerous and hardenin'; and, should I enter into the wild conflict, I feel that I am in danger of losin' all them tender, winnin' qualities that first won me the love of my Samantha.
I glanced hasty from one to the other of these solemn-lookin' parties ranged behind the book barricade, and then takes a chance that the one with the sharp nose and the dust-colored hair is T. Waldo. "Mr. Pettigrew?" says I, smilin' friendly and winnin'. "Not at all," says he, a bit pettish. "Oh, yes," says I, turnin' to the broken-nosed one with the wavy black pompadour effect. "Of course."
He was a univarsal favorite with the galls, and tho' he did'nt behave very pretty neither, forgetting to marry where he promised, and where he had'nt ought to have forgot too; yet, so it was, he had such an uncommon winnin way with him, he could talk them over in no time Sall was fairly bewitched.
'Eh dear a' me! said Bell, 'how well I mind yo'r telling me that tale! It were twenty-four year ago come October. I thought I never could think enough on a man as had rode on a whale's back! 'Yo' may learn t' way of winnin' t' women, said Daniel, winking at the specksioneer. And Kinraid immediately looked at Sylvia.
Why, any fat old shuffle-footed loafer can take a basket under his arm and go down t' the market and pay down his money and come away with a turkey or anything else he wants. 'Tain't the getting him. Archie it's the winnin' him from a lot of hot sports that think they c'n roll dice. Twenty-seven throws I took and with every throw a free drink of good old cassy " "Twenty-seven drinks o' cassy!
"'Tis booze they want, and carousin' with the rotten women in the coal-towns, and sittin' up all night winnin' each other's money with a greasy pack of cards! They take their pleasure where they find it, and 'tis nothin' better they want." "Then, Mary, if that's so, don't you see it's all the more reason for trying to teach them? If not for their own sakes, for the sake of their children!
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