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When they weren't going headfirst into barrels of water they were chewing something not meant to be chewed. Casey asserts that it is all a bluff about goats eating tin cans. They don't. He says they never touched a can all the while he had them. He says devastated Patmos wished they would, and leave the two-dollar lace curtains alone, and clotheslines and water barrels and baggage.
It hurts to be shot against a wall. He needs a campaign manager to go down and whoop things up for him to get the boys in line and the new two-dollar bills afloat and the babies kissed and the machine in running order. Sully, I don't want to brag, but you remember how I brought Coughlin under the wire for leader of the nineteenth? Ours was the banner district.
Leavitt, who had deferred going to bed in order to hear his report. "None at all," answered Harry. "Is there anything by which you can identify any of the bills?" "Yes," answered Harry, with sudden recollection, "I dropped a penful of ink on one of the bills a two-dollar note just in the center. I had been writing a letter, and the bill lay on the table near by." "Good!" said Mr. Leavitt.
"Five dollars an' a day off." "And a two-dollar bill for Dennis, eh?" "Dennis got that." "True. Well, John, here's $40 for you that pays you until January 1st. Now, it strikes me that, considering the behavior of you three people, I am very generous to pay you your wages a week in advance, but I am not going to stop there.
This fraud is generally neatly executed, and is well calculated to deceive the unsuspecting, and a banker, in hurriedly counting money, is liable to be taken in on one of these. A recent scheme to defraud with raised bills is to raise a two-dollar bill to a five.
"If a job you want it," he said, "you should go round to the back door and wait till the foreman comes." "Me no want job," she said. "Me coosin." "Cousin!" Abe cried. "Whose cousin?" "Lina's coosin," said the girl. She held out her hand and, opening it, disclosed a two-dollar bill all damp and wrinkled. "Me want dress like Lina." "What!" Abe cried. "So soon already!" "Lina got nice red dress.
'I tell ye here an' now, he says, 'they'se as good business men in th' quite counthry graveyards iv Kansas as ye can find in the palathial lunch- counthers iv Wall street, he says. 'Whin I see th' face iv that man who looks like a two-dollar pitcher iv Napolyeon at Saint Heleena, he says, 'I say to mesilf, ye shall not ye shall not' what th' divvle is it ye shall not do, Hinnissy?"
Walls of chilled steel rising from solid rock stood between our treasure and the outer world. Until then I had not known how tremendous the nervous strain had been; but now it came home to me. I mopped the perspiration from my forehead, I drew a deep breath. "Edgar," I exclaimed happily, "I congratulate you!" I found Edgar extending toward me a two-dollar bill.
I was very careless to put it loose in my pocket." "You were rather careless, sir." "Of what denomination is it? "It is a two-dollar note." "If you had been a poor boy," said the little man, eying Carl keenly, "you might have been tempted to keep it. I might not have known." Carl smiled. "What makes you think I am not a poor boy?" he said. "You are well dressed."
Yesterday at 2:30 I had a hundred and ten dollars; this morning I'm there with a dollar eighty, and that's the draw out of a two-dollar touch. If there is any truth in the old saying that money talks, I am certainly deaf and dumb to-day. Besides I have a card in my pocket which says I've opened up a running account of thirty-two forty at George's place.
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