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Well, there's no accounting for tastes. Squiggs?" "I'm a lawyer," said Squiggs, "and as booze is now ultra vires I do my best to keep it down," and Mr. Squiggs beamed genially upon his pleasantry and the full glass in his hand. "I take a snort when I want it and I don't care who knows it," said Y.D. "I al'us did, and I reckon I'll keep on to the finish.
Thomas had been scooped on the big murder, Camden and G. W. Squiggs had been scooped, at the city hall and the county building, on the only items worth while, and they were all at white heat; though it was a great consolation to Squiggs, after all, to find himself in such distinguished company.
"And then your advances are returned to you with interest," Squiggs suggested. "A very creditable plan of benefaction; very creditable, indeed." "No, that is not the idea.
Squiggs, a thin woman much concerned about social status, and the party was complete. Transley managed the carving more skilfully than his protest might have suggested, and there was a lull in the conversation while the first demands of appetite were being satisfied. "Tell us about your settlement scheme, Mr. Grant," Mrs. Transley urged when it seemed necessary to find a topic. "Mr.
"Theoretically your idea has much to commend it, but it is quite impracticable," Mr. Squiggs announced with some finality. "It could never be brought into effect." "If a corporation can determine the value of the service rendered by each of its hundred thousand employees, why cannot a nation determine the value of the service rendered by each of its hundred million citizens?"
"Do I understand that you are charging no interest?" "Not a cent." "Then where do YOU come in?" "I had hoped to make it clear that I am not seeking to 'come in. You see, the money I am doing this with is not really mine at all." "Not yours?" cried a chorus of voices. "No. Mr. Squiggs, you are a lawyer, and therefore a man of perspicuity and accurate definitions. What is money?" "You flatter me.
With the demands made by the war on the steel industry my stocks went up in price and my good friend Murdoch was able to report that it had made a fortune for me while I was overseas.... And we call ourselves an intelligent people!" "And so we are," said Mr. Squiggs. "We stick to a system we know to be sound. It has weathered all the gales of the past, and promises to weather those of the future.
As soon as he had left the police office, the magistrate whispered to the watchman 'Squiggs, I know very well that you took that gentleman's watch and money. Don't interrupt me I say, I know you did. Well, you must share the spoils with me. 'I'll take my oath, yer honor 'Your oath! that's a good one! cried the magistrate, laughing heartily. 'd'ye think I'd believe you on oath?
Sinclair was brought before the police for drunkenness, and was also charged with having violently assaulted Watchman Squiggs, who had taken him in custody! 'You see, yer honor, I was going my rounds, when up comes this ere chap and knocks me down, and would have killed me, if I hadn't hit him a light tap on the head with my club. Then I rapped for help, and
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