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Updated: May 13, 2025
If J. Sterling Morton would only shave his head he could get four dollars a day for playing What-Is-It in a dime museum. As an anthropological curio Oofty-Gofty or the Wild Man of Borneo wouldn't be "in it."
I've come to entreat you not to press the bank for that money. We'll pay it all back, somehow. John and I will earn it, if necessary." "Earn it! Rubbish! You couldn't earn a dime." "We'll repay every penny if you will only give us time, only stop pressing the bank " "I shall do nothing of the sort. You've robbed them, not me. You must answer to them.
"What do you want it for?" "Please, mammy," Lena said coaxingly. "I won't buy cream-cakes or anything to eat. I want to invest in a gold mine." Mrs. Quincy gave her a sharp look and grudgingly handed out a dime; for Lena's voice was instinct with hope, and hope was such a rare visitor in the dingy little lodgings that Mrs. Quincy grew generous under its magnetic warmth.
Occasionally some lonely Middle-of-the-Roader, dragging his No. 12's painfully through the dust may turn to look at you, perhaps toss you a dime; but you are politically dead. You may play the Baptist racket for all it is worth; but the brethren while long on zeal are shy on boodle.
There was something fascinatingly mysterious in his tones and actions to that youth, who devoured dime novels on the sly. "Sammy," said Shorty, "I'm goin' away, right off, and I don't want the people in the house to know nothin' of it. I want you to help me." "You bet I will," responded the boy, with his eyes dancing. "Goin' to run away? I'm goin to run away myself some day.
"Well, all right, but let's forget the damned old ghosts for the present," and I broke out into the catch we had sung on so momentous an occasion Some gave a nickel, some gave a dime; But I didn't give no red cent She was no girl of mine Delia's gone! Delia's gone!
The idea occurred to me to go from house to house, and ask for a dime at each, which, if given, would amount to ten dollars a day; and, with the money thus collected daily for half a year, to establish a nucleus hospital, which, as a fixed fact, should stimulate its friends to further assistance.
For they sure did more than amuse you for your dime. You took for a solid fact, all the silly mush you saw on the screen as real life. But, it was reel life, Jeb, spelled with two 'e's' instead of the genuine r-e-a-l way.
I had always been a reserved and bottled-up man. It was psychical timidity or sensitiveness perhaps both. And I smiled to myself in wonder when I felt an impulse to confide in this stranger and vagabond. "Jack," said I. "Mack," said he. "Mack," said I, "I'll tell you." "Do you want the dime back in advance?" said he. I handed him a dollar.
She waited for another turn that come nothing important to any of 'em; then she drew Leonard out and made him take her for a glass of lemonade out where Aggie Tuttle was being Rebekkah at the Well, because they charged two bits for it at the bar and Aggie's was only a dime. The sale made forty cents Aggie had took in on the evening.
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