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"Phew!" whistled Jimmy. "These C.P.A.s are going to find this a more interesting job than they anticipated. Poor old Compton! I feel mighty sorry for him, but he had better find it out now than after that grafter has wrecked his business entirely." That afternoon Mr.
Don't you understand, dummy? I didn't write that! They've changed my story distorted it. I'm FURIOUS!" Dan whistled softly. "I didn't suppose they'd try anything like that, but they did a good job while they were at it. Why, you'd think O'Neil was a grafter and the S. R. & N. nothing but a land- grabbing deal." "How DARED they?" the girl cried.
That Minneapolis bunch that the blonde lady works for is sending out a colony of farmers to take up this land between here and the Bear Paws. The lady tipped her hand, not knowing where I ranged and thinking I wouldn't be interested in anything but her. She's a real nice lady, too, and goodlooking but a grafter to her last eye winker.
He is the greatest enemy of his profession. And he makes the work of every one else engaged in it infinitely harder. It is something every business and profession has to fight against the dishonest grafter who is using it as a means of swindling society. Most salesmen give their names at the entrance desk instead of presenting their cards.
"That fellow, Jim," he whispered, as a tall finely groomed man passed and touched his hand, "that fellow is as slick a political grafter as ever stole the ear-rings from the sleeping form of a fallen angel. He levies blackmail on almost every crime named in the code. But you can't prove it in court and he's worth millions. His influence on legislation is enormous and he can't be ignored.
They will probably grow spontaneously in China. I forgot whether I told you in my last letter that the Minister of the Interior has given me a monthly and renewable pass first class on the Japanese railways. A friend here asked him for one for Mamma, too, but he said he was very sorry, that privilege could not be extended to a woman. So I'm the only grafter in the family.
And if you won't" he added, raising his hand threateningly, "I'll go to them six councilmen, an' I'll graft 'em one at a time, an' THEN where 'll your boss grafter be? You can't help yourself." "Say!" he exclaimed, "ain't I a boss grafter? Apples, potatoes, celery, peas, and chickens! Five grafts for one ordinance! I do it!" "An' don't you say nothing about it," warned the Colonel.
I recognized its possibilities as soon as I saw it, and getting all the grafts I could collect, and they were very scarce at the time, I had the branches of some of my old worthless trees cut off, and set my old grafter to convert them into Worcester Pearmains; they soon came into bearing and produced abundant and profitable crops.
The 'grafter' is all too common in politics." Again the boy fell into a thoughtful mood. "Mr. Watson, am I a Democrat or a Republican?" The old gentleman laughed outright. "Don't you know, Ken?" "No, sir, I haven't asked myself before." "Then I advise you to be a Republican." "Why?" "Because Hopkins is a Democrat, and we may then fight him openly."
The paper fell from Isabelle's hand, and she sat staring at the floor. Her husband was called in plain prose a "grafter," one who participated in unearned and improper profits, due to granting favors in his official capacity to himself.
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