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The pigs kept close to the door, a shovin' agin it every now and then, to see all was right for a dash in, if the bears came; and the geese kept sentry too agin the foxes; and one old feller would squake out "all's well" every five minuts, as he marched up and down and back agin on the bankin' of the house. "But the turkeys was the wust.
"Certain you kin," said Grandmother Penny, cordially. "Got a important bankin' matter over to the county seat, Mr. Spackles, and I was wonderin' if I could figger on your help?" "To be sure you kin, Scattergood. To be sure." "Got to have a brainy man over there day after to-morrer. B'jing! that's circus day, too. Didn't think of that till this minnit.
That's more important, yer'll find in the long run, than the shape of his nose or the size of 'is bankin' account." Mrs Yabsley still hid her money, but out of the reach of rats and mice, and Miss Perkins had surprised her one day by naming the exact amount she had in her possession.
Th' Sicrety iv th' Threeasury has declared, that Mr. Bryan in sayin' that silver is not convartible be th' terms iv th' Slatthry bankin' law iv 1870, an' th' sicond clause iv th' threaty iv Gansville, has committed th' onpard'nable pollytical sin iv so consthructin' th' facts as to open up th' possibility iv wan not knowin' th' thrue position iv affairs, misundhersthandin' intirely.
Nick Undrell did not answer this very pertinent question, and his visitor did not press him, but resumed, still casually "Can't say as this is quite a palatial residence for an industrious man that's called successful. You used ter make good money at one time, Nick, when you worked along with Buckskin Jack; had a consid'rable bankin' account, too. This all you've got ter show for it?" "Yep.
"No-o," he drawled. "I hate to disappoint you, Sam, but it ain't me. It's another er smart, lively young feller. He ain't quite so old as I am; there's a little matter of twenty odd years between us, I believe, but otherwise than that he's all right. And he knows the bankin' trade, so I'm told." "Gracious king! Who is he? Where is he?" "That I can't tell you just yet. But maybe I can by and by."
"It don't hurt this 'ere marble pavement not like the other thing." "No" Mr. Adams contemplated the pavement while he, too, drew forth and filled a pipe "a man might play a game of checkers on it; that is, o' course, when no one was lookin'." "I been thinking," announced Mr. Jope, "over what his Reverence said about bankin' our money." "How much d'ye reckon we've got?" "Between us?
"Smoke, you're a sure bright boy. You're college-learnt. You know more'n a minute than I could know in forty thousan' years. But just the same you're dead wrong when you call your luck a system. I've ben around some, an' seen a few, an' I tell you straight an' confidential an' all-assurin', a system to beat a bankin' game ain't possible." "But I'm showing you this one. It's a pipe."
Everybody knows you don't do no work. Shootin' and sailin' and fishin' ain't work, and that's about all you do. 'Take Ros, says I. 'He might be to work. He was in a bank up to the city once and he knows the bankin' trade. He might be at it now, but what would be the use? I says.
Out on the briny for a decently long trip; plenty of pretty women on which I'm bankin' of course" he gave Merriton a sudden, searching look, "and not a care in the world. And the white lights of Cairo starin' at me across the water. Some picture, isn't it?" "You may keep it!" said Tony West with a shudder.
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