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Updated: May 13, 2025
"'I don't blame you so much, says Jack to him; 'it was the looking-glass that desaved me. That cur's nothing but a black leg! "'What looking-glass? you knave you! says dark-face, giving him a fresh haul. "'Why, the one I saw under the dog's oxther, replied Jack.
I asked, with a feeling of shame which did honour to my heart. "Och, now, lave this! Boot! is it? Sure A cud kerry thon wee shilty ondher may oxther! Ye have a right till be givin' me a thrifle fur luck. A'll let ye aff we two notes." But after five minutes' more palaver, M'Nab agreed to an even swap. I had pen and ink in my pocket; my note-book supplied paper; and receipts were soon exchanged.
"'Under my oxther, you swindling rascal! replied the dog, giving him a pull by the other side of the collar; 'did ever any honest pair of gintlemen hear the like? but he only wants to break through the agreement: so let us turn him at once into an ass, and then he'll break no more bargains, nor strive to take in honest men and win their money.
For, what do you think? but, as Jack was beginning the game, the dog tips him a wink laying his fore-claw along his nose as before, as much as to say, 'Watch me, and you'll win' turning round, at the same time, and showing Jack a nate little looking-glass, that was set in his oxther, in which Jack saw, dark as it was, the spots of all the other fellow's cards, as he thought, so that he was cock-sure of bating him.
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