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"Now that's Calthea Rose's way of doin' business. She undertook to sell out them goods, and she's goin' to keep on till she does it. She is willin' to sell some of the worst-lookin' things at cost, but not a cent below that, for if she does, she loses money, and that isn't Calthea Rose.
Yes, I got it now," answered the proprietor, with some animation, as if suddenly interested. "He come in the week we opened worst-lookin' bum you ever see toes out of his shoes, coat all torn. Said he had no money and asked for something to eat. Billy here was goin' to fire him out when one of my customers said he knew him.
It was only forty-five minutes, in fact; but Mrs. Connie was watchin' for me. "Let's have a pair of scissors," says I, as I sheds my overcoat and produced from under one arm, where it had been buttoned up snug and tight, about the worst-lookin' doll you ever saw. I hadn't figured on Mrs. Murtha goin' huffy so sudden, either. "You fresh young shrimp you!" she blazes out. "What's that?"
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