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But Len he'd saved Hong Duo's life in trouble in a dump in Placerville ol' Hangtown and the chink had clung to um like a burro to somethin' he's swiped from Camp. "Agin' that, too, the chink had money an' Len and me was broke. Fer a year he grubstaked us, and followed us around pocketin' up that a way, cookin' and such, and livin' for Len and Baby Jean.
"I say, you know," says Ollie, "awfully good of you to do this." "I'm like that all the time," says I, pocketin' my fifty commission. "I'll rent the Agnes out for you any old day, so long as I don't have to go battin' around on her myself." Course, if it was just a case of sailin' down to Coney and back, or maybe runnin' up the Hudson as far as Yonkers, I'd take a chance.
"No, I wouldn't, neither. I'd take pocketin' in mine every time. It's as bad as dope; Corliss, sure. If it once gets a-hold of you, you're a goner. You'll never shake it. Look at me! And talk about pipe-dreams; they can't burn a candle 'longside of it." He walked over and kicked one of the fires apart.
"But look here, Corliss, I want you to mind this ain't pocketin'. This is just plain ordinary 'prentice work; but pocketin'" he straightened up his back and spoke reverently "but pocketin' is the deepest science and the finest art. Delicate to a hair's-breadth, hand and eye true and steady as steel.
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