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Updated: May 12, 2025
To-day I had to dig down into my jeans for a matter of two plunks. But what of it? Life must inevitably be dotted with these minor tragedies. I do not repine. The whisper goes round, 'Psmith bites the bullet, and wears a brave smile. Comrade Jackson " A snore came from the chair. Psmith sighed. But he did not repine. He bit the bullet. His eyes closed.
"What sort of a book was it?" Andy inquired. "A reference work on inorganic chemistry," answered Frank. "Cost me ten plunks, too. I can't afford to lose it for I need it in my work." "Some book!" murmured Andy, as the three hastened on. They tried door after door as they passed, but most of them were locked.
It's good fur eighty plunks in chips." "Nuthin' doin'," announced the first emphatically. "Any time I hold four kings and still can't rake in the pot, it shore is my unlucky day. But I'll be here with bells on next pay day. So long," and he strode out of the room, slamming the door behind him. The others were preparing to go on three-handed, when the stranger intervened.
"Here's five dollars in ten-cent pieces," he said; "and I've got two dollars besides." "Seven plunks, all told. But say, I hope you didn't get this chicken feed the way Hooker got his that he let me have to bet on the Barville game." "Eh? How did he get it?" "Stole it; swiped it off his own mother. What do you know about that, Bo?" "Stole it!" cried Phil.
"My position has also the advantage of carrying a good deal of money with it." "Plunks!" "You have grasped it. Plunks. Dollars. Doubloons. I line up with the thickwads now, Spike. I don't have to work to turn a dishonest penny any longer." The horrid truth sank slowly into the other's mind. "Say! What, Mr. Chames? Youse don't need to go on de old lay no more? You're cutting it out for fair?"
If there's any way to make a mistake, she makes it." It was after eight when Sidney found Johnny Rosenfeld. "You here in the ward, Johnny!" she said. Suffering had refined the boy's features. His dark, heavily fringed eyes looked at her from a pale face. But he smiled up at her cheerfully. "I was in a private room; but it cost thirty plunks a week, so I moved. Why pay rent?"
To keep up the "bluff" the unpopular man bought a thousand "plunks" worth of shares. "Now," said the shark, "since you have shown so much confidence in my company by purchasing shares, you can prove your patriotism more fully by placing a substantial deposit with the Independent Trust. This will help maintain the company on solid footing, and ensure you higher dividends on your stock.
It was not till Babbitt was thick and disconsolate with mutton grease that he flung out: "I wound up a nice little deal with Conrad Lyte this morning that put five hundred good round plunks in my pocket. Pretty nice pretty nice! And yet I don't know what's the matter with me to-day.
I've got forty plunks burning my jeans. I've got to separate myself from it or make my roll a thousand." The end of it was that both Sam and Curly went down to the corral and saddled their ponies. To the last the conspirators played up to their parts. "Damned good riddance," Stone called after them as they rode away.
"Can you blame that fat guy for not wantin' to play with Dave here?" asked Hart, and he beamed at the memory of what he had seen. "Son, you ce'tainly gave him one surprise party when yore rowels dug in." "Wonder to me he didn't stampede the cows, way he hollered," grinned a third. "I don't grudge him my ten plunks. Not none. Dave he give me my money's worth that last round."
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