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Updated: May 11, 2025
They stood beside their chairs, eying the proprietor of the Half Way House, curiously. He, in turn, glared at them in astonishment, fully equal to theirs, while his red face went from its normal fiery hue to deep purple, and his hands clenched. "Colonel Witham!" they exclaimed, in the same breath. "What are you two doing here?" he cried. "What new monkey-shine of yours is this?
I've never forgotten, for one reason, because, when I began to play for patients and worked over them with the talk and flap-dash and monkey-shine, and got them to pay their money freely, then half the time they would improve and say they felt the flow of vitality, and some of them went away well and sound as biscuits, when, before they had come to us, they had had doctors and drugs and baths and changes of climate for nothing.
So the upshot of it was: first Hart's nephew stopped his squirming; and then he took to telling what a holy wonder he was at mule-driving; and then he went to blowing the biggest kind till he got so he couldn't talk no longer about what he'd do in the shooting line if any road-agents come around trying their monkey-shine hold-ups on him!
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