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"There are some American letters for you, sir," he said. "I was about to send them to your hotel." He gave me the letters four of them altogether and I went into the private office to look them over. My first batch of mail from home; it gave me a small thrill to see two-cent stamps in the corners of the envelopes. One of the letters was from Campbell. I opened it first of all.
The influence of the bureau was plainly perceptible in the Legislature's favourable action on such measures as the Cleveland Two-Cent Fare bill and the bill abolishing the bicycle and traffic squads in all cities with a population of more than 50,000. "Our author lays particular stress on the career of the Rev. Dr.
As ye get near th' dhrug store ye feel sure iv it, an' 'tis with th' air iv a man without hope that ye hand th' paper to a young pharmycist who is mixin' a two-cent stamp f'r a lady customer. He hands it over to a scientist who is compoundin' an ice-cream soda f'r a child, with th' remark: 'O'Leary's writin' is gettin' worse an' worse.
Then, to make matters worse, my starter wouldn’t work at the critical moment, and I had to get out to crank the engine. What a howl of indignation went up from those stalled truck drivers! I felt like a bad two-cent piece in a drawer full of five-dollar gold pieces. Guess my face was red behind my ears.
In those days the cent was as large as our present silver half dollar, and the copper two-cent piece was a monster in the way of coinage. Now our copper and nickel coins are small and can be carried without testing strength of pockets. They are regarded as money "tokens." Silver coins that are punched can be refused in the settlement of a debt.
"Dat time when the Yanks was goin' to Augusta, an I went to black my Marster's boot, he'd give us a two-cent peice, big as a quarter for boot blackin, I say, 'Marster who is dem soldiers? An he say to me, 'Dey's de Yankees, come to try to take you awy from me. An I say, 'Looks like to me Marster, ef'n dey wants to take us dey'd arsk you fer us. Marster laughed and say, 'Boy!
Twelve men, be they farmers or "sore-heads," had found John Lane guilty of something very like grand larceny. The case was to be appealed of course. Even the respectable two-cent paper delivered itself editorially on the verdict in the famous coal cases, with unusual daring. For the Post was ordinarily most cautious not to reflect upon matters inimical to "leading interests."
All this they read with saucer eyes, and erect and primitive curiosity, and with unwearied gizzard, whose corrugations even yet need no sharpening, just as some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella without any improvement, that I can see, in the pronunciation, or accent, or emphasis, or any more skill in extracting or inserting the moral.
Why, you told me you promised me a two-cent rate." "I don't remember it," said the clerk. "I don't know anything about that. But I know this; I know that hops have gone up. I know the German crop was a failure and that the crop in New York wasn't worth the hauling. Hops have gone up to nearly a dollar. You don't suppose we don't know that, do you, Mr. Dyke?"
You'd be saving the city twenty times that much if you keep Croker's man out of the job. You know that as well as I do." "The city can better afford to lose twenty thousand dollars," Holcombe answered, "than we can afford to give a two-cent stamp for corruption." "All right," said the heeler; "all right, Mr. Holcombe. Go on. Fight 'em your own way.
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