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Well, sir, the whole crowd was so excited they could hardly wait to find a slot machine, and finally they bought nearly all my cough lozengers, and went out into the night, and pa and I went along, 'cause pa said he understood all the slot machines were owned by Rockefeller, and he made more money on them than he did on Standard oil, and the money that he gave away to schools and churches was from his rake-off on his slot machines.
Once more Gorman lamented the fact that women were mixed up in a business affair. "Damn Madame Ypsilante," he said. Then, finding some relief for his feelings in expressing them aloud: "Damn that woman's tongue." Gorman was puzzled and therefore anxious. His commission on the sale of Salissa his rake-off, as Donovan called it was large, a sum which Gorman did not want to lose.
In every city for many years the politician had secured positions for his friends as teachers and janitors; he had received a rake-off in the contract for every new building or coal supply or adoption of school-books.
He gits his rake-off out of all they run off and sell. Me and the other cattlemen we've been feedin' and supportin' 'em till the drain's gittin' more'n we can stand. We've got to put 'em out, like a fire, or be eat up. We've got to hit 'em, and hit 'em hard." "It would seem so," the colonel agreed.
Not content with the "Kitty's" rake-off, every stud poker table had one or more "cappers" sitting in, to whom the dealers could occasionally throw a stiff pot. The backs of poker decks were so cunningly marked that while the wise ones could read their size and suit across the table, no untaught eye could detect their guile.
There's going to be a vacant room there maybe you two fellows could frame it up to take it, heh? Understand, I don't get no rake-off on this, but we all like to do what we can for M " "No, no!" said Morton. "Sorry. Couldn't do it.
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