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Every man who lives long enough, and has brains enough, comes to know this in time. And those who have not brains enough to know it, are the greatest failures of all, because they think they have attained success, and they have only been buncoed with a counterfeit." "But a man who has money is in a position to give more happiness than one who hasn't," objected Dave.
"The one thing I'm sore about is the way she buncoed us into giving up our return tickets to the chorus." "Shame on you!" cried the generous O'Mally. "What chance had any of them on this side? Ten to one, nobody home could have sent them money. We men can get along somehow. But I wish I could get some good plug-cut. This English shoe-string tobacco burns like hot lead."
He had seen Faneuil Hall, the old State House, Bunker Hill, the Public Library, and the Old South Church, and he had not been sandbagged or buncoed or led astray from the paths of propriety.
"But perhaps Uncle Jeptha signed the option thinking it was for a shorter time." "That wouldn't help you none. The paper was signed. And why should Pepper have buncoed him at that time?" "Why should he be so eager to get the farm now?" asked Hiram. "Well, I'll tell you. It ain't out yet.
No female committees of uncertain age invaded his place of business and buncoed him out of a double saw-buck for the benefit of a pastor who would expend it seeing what Parkhurst saw and feeling what Parkhurst felt.
"Now, I must say " he began. But Peters clutched his shoulder with a nervous hand. "Siddle has just hurried up the street and entered his shop," he hissed. The journalist had not only kept his eyes open, but excelled in the art of putting two and two together, an arithmetical calculation which, as applied to the affairs of life, is not so readily arrived at as many people imagine. "Buncoed!
"Gad! that Langdon must be a crook," muttered Porter. "I'm going to speak to my friend Crane about him again. No honest man should have horses in his stable." "That they shouldn't," asserted Dixon. "But we've got our own troubles to-day. From what I see of this thing, I'd rather back the mare at even money than I would if she was ten to one. If I'm any judge we're being buncoed good and plenty."
Like most fellows who haven't any too much of it, I've a great deal of respect for education, and that's why I'm sorry to see so many men who deal in it selling gold-bricks to young fellows who can't afford to be buncoed.
"Here's the money, Mr. Welborne." A snort that could have been heard to the front door issued from Welborne's fluttering nostrils. He pushed the money from him, writhed and tottered, and as he glared furiously at Henley he screamed: "It's a trick put up between you. I see it, but I won't be buncoed in no such way. Do you hear me? no such way!"
Mr. Cooke had given out that he had started for Saville to restock the larder. "No," he continued, "Brass Buttons didn't let me get to Saville. You see, when he got back to town last night they told him he had been buncoed out of the biggest thing for years, and they got it into his head that I was child enough to run a ferry for criminals.
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