wire-tappin

Updated: May 9, 2025

What is it this trip, a wire-tappin' scheme, or just plain green goods?" "You flatter me," says J. Bayard. "No, my business of the moment is not to appropriate any of the princely profits of your er honest toil," and he stops for another of them acetic-acid smiles. "Yes," says I, "it is a batty way of gettin' money workin' for it, eh? But go on. Whatcher mean you lost your dog?"

Sewell Ford - Shorty McCabe on the Job