tarvun

Updated: August 16, 2026

If you want supper, a boy will show you to the dinin-room for twenty-five cents. Your room bein in the tenth story, it will cost you a dollar to be shown up there." "How much do you ax for a man breathin in this equinomikal tarvun?" sed I. "Ten cents a Breth," was his reply. I sent up my keerd to the Prints, and was immejitly ushered before him. He received me kindly, and axed me to sit down.

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