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Updated: May 10, 2025
If you are a bogus Bunny I don't want you." It was simple, direct, and convincing, and my heart fluttered like the drum-beat's morning call to action the moment I read it. "By Jove!" I cried. "The woman is right, of course. It must be Henriette, and I'll go to her if I have to rob a nickel-in-the-slot machine." It was as of old.
Underneath it was the lunch counter, where clam-fritters, the specialty of the place, could be had four afternoons in the week. Elsewhere were nickel-in-the-slot machines, cigar-lighters, a vase of wax flowers under glass, and a racing chart setting forth the day's odds, weights, and entries.
"I wanted to get weighed," said Roger, "because I know I am becoming a shadow studying so hard. I asked Miss Estelle where to go and told her I didn't think the nickel-in-the-slot machines were very accurate Well, what's wrong with that?" Roger stopped for both Win and Frances were laughing at him. "Here you are knocking English customs," said Win at last.
Where are the awful corner-groceries that helped the saloons to ruin men and boys, and where are the busy nickel-in-the-slot machines and shameless smokers in the street-cars? Where are the sellers of lottery tickets, where the horse-races and the open gambling? It was my fortune to be re-elected for eight years.
I told you this was no piker's game, and you agreed to it so cut out the idea you're in any nickel-in-the-slot business!" Old Jimmie felt physical pain at the thought of parting from money on such a scale. His earlier plans concerning Maggie had never contemplated any such extravagance. But he was silenced by the dominant force behind Barney's sarcasm.
McKenna inspected the nickel-in-the-slot machine with affectation of much curiosity. "What's this you have here, at all?" said Mr. McKenna. "'Tis an aisy way iv gettin' rich," said Mr. Dooley. "All ye have to do is to dhrop a nickel in th' slot, an' three other nickels come out at th' dure. Ye can play it all afthernoon, an' take a fortune fr'm it if ye'er nickels hould out."
But he consented to install a nickel-in-the-slot machine in his tavern last week, and it was standing on a table when Mr. McKenna came in. It was a machine that looked like a house; and, when you put a nickel in at the top of it, either the door opened and released three other nickels or it did not. Mostly it did not. Mr. Dooley saluted Mr. McKenna with unusual cordiality, and Mr.
"Ye might ha' called the filly, Amandy, Nal." The honest face of Rinaldo flushed scarlet. He squirmed I use the word advisedly and nearly fell off the fence. "If there was a nickel-in-the-slot kickin' machine around San Lorenzy," he cried, "I'd take a dollar dose right now! Gosh! What a clam I am! I give ye my word, Mandy, that the notion o' callin' the filly after you never entered my silly head.
This led to the demand for a nickel-in-the-slot machine, which, when established, became immensely popular over the whole country.
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