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Updated: June 14, 2025
The prominent business men of Dodge watched the hectic consequences of this lawlessness over their faro layouts with speculative eyes and came to the conclusion that killings were becoming altogether too promiscuous. The town, they said, needed a business administration; and forthwith they selected Bat Masterson as marshal.
Straw and Officer were both willing, and though in rags, I willingly consented and contributed my five to the general fund. Every gambling house ran from two to three monte layouts, as it was a favorite game of cowmen, especially when they were from the far southern country.
"Well, that's up in Chinatown all right," admitted Captain Scraggs, "but how about what's inside the two crates?" "Oriental goods, of course," said McGuffey. "They're consigned to a Chinaman, an' besides, that's what it says on the cases, don't it, Gib? Oriental goods, Scraggs, is silks an' satins, rice, chop suey, punk, an' idols an' fan tan layouts." Mr.
Oliver Crowe, at his desk in the copy-department of Vanamee and Co.'s, has been spending most of the afternoon twiddling pencils and reading and rereading two letters out of his pocket instead of righteously thinking up layouts for the new United Steel Frame Pulley Campaign.
The men moved restlessly, threw down their little bags of dust impatiently, and accepted victory or defeat with very audible comments. The gamblers, dressed in black, pale, sat steady-eyed and silent behind their layouts. I suppose the life must already have developed, if not a type, at least a uniform mental attitude that showed itself in outward expression.
Well, that's over and a year's work with it and all the dreams he and Nancy had of getting married at once. Those pulley layouts have to be fixed up sometime. What can you say about a pulley what can you say? "The United Steel Frame Pulley Oh Man, There's a Hog for Work!"
The men who were ranged in front of the bar, behind which half a dozen attendants in white aprons busily waited on their wants, usually talked oil and nothing but oil. To-day they had another theme. The same subject engrossed the groups scattered here and there throughout the large hall. In the rear of the room were the faro layouts, the roulette wheels, and the poker players.
In token of their gratitude, the packers patronized his faro and roulette layouts and were mulcted cheerfully of their earnings. But his commercialism was of too lusty a growth to be long endured; so they rushed him one night, burned his shanty, divided the bank, and headed him up the trail with empty pockets. Ill-luck was his running mate.
I'll tarry a while and see 'em singe the fowl. I like the smell of burning pin feathers; it clears my head. "Over in the far corner was another animal in knee panties, riggin' up one of these flash-light, snappy-shot, photograft layouts.
Back to pulleys again and the crowded sweat-box of the copy room and twenty-five dollars a week with the raise gone glimmering now And Nancy is lost. Oliver sits looking at the layouts for United Steel Frame Pulleys for half-an-hour without really doing anything but sharpen and resharpen a pencil. Mrs.
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