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You know there's about five hundred per cent, profit in that game when you get it goin', and while Pa Ull might have started small, in an East 14th Street basement, with livin' rooms in the rear, he kept branchin' out, gettin' to Fourth-ave., and fin'lly to Fifth, jumpin' from a flat to an apartment, and from that to a reg'lar house.
Honest, that coat was enough to make an eccentric song and dance artist green in the eyes! And you can believe me when I say I didn't lose any time in scootin' 'em down Fourth-ave. to a dollar a day house patronized by some of our swellest Texas buyers. My next move is to make a report over the 'phone. "Yep, I got 'em both under lock and key," says I to Marjorie. "Trouble to pick em out?
I never says a word; but just as he reaches over to spring the catch and break in, I shoves my foot out and blocks it at the bottom, bringin' him up all standin'. "Say, this ain't no ferryhouse," says I. "Hello!" says he. "A new one, eh?" "I ain't any Fourth-ave. antique," says I; "but I'm over seven. Was you wantin' to see anyone special?" He seems to think that's a joke.
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