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About nine Piker, which was the name the stranger had handed in, sez, "Do you gentlemen ever indulge in a little friendly game?" Now Dick had never throwed a card in his life, to my knowin'. The ol' man used to play some, but he was mighty choicy who he played with; while I well, o' course, I played.
"I'm going to keep mine, too," Bobby informed him quite cheerfully. "I have just found that I have one, and I like it." Stone brushed this triviality aside with a wave of his heavy hand. "Quit kidding," he said, "and come out with it. I see you're no piker, anyhow. You're playing for big game. What is it you want?" "As I said before, not very much," declared Bobby.
It was a Case of winning on the Chin Strap. Mr. Piker was first in the Line, shaking like a Corn-Starch Pudding. A few Moments later he went out behind the Grand Stand and counted up and found that he had $23. He had the Panama and one Shirt. The still, small Voice said, "Duck!" but he thought of Claire and his coming Vacation.
They had seen a barber become a millionaire in a day because the company in which he had plunged had struck a gusher. They had seen the same man borrow five dollars three months later to carry him over until he got a job. Riches were pouring out of the ground for the gambler who would take a chance. Thrift was a much-discredited virtue in Malapi. The one unforgivable vice was to be "a piker."
The Russian then went out into the ill-controlled markets and side streets of Archangel and sold to his own countrymen these luxuries at prices that would make an American sugar profiteer or bootlegger seem a piker.
"Piker!" said he severely "sharpening your wits on helpless servants. A waiter has no friends, anyway!" An elevator, descending, discharged into the lobby half a dozen mirthful maskers. "What you, Lucifer! Traitor! Where have you been all evening?" "Madame!" he bowed mockingly "in spirit, always at your ear."
"Yes. For being ashamed of it." Randy's head went up. "I'm not ashamed of the boarding-house. I am ashamed to have my mother work." "So," said the lame man, softly, "that's it? And your name is Paine?" "Randolph Paine of King's Crest. There have been a lot of us and not a piker in the lot." "I am Mark Prime." "Major Prime of the 135th?" The other nodded.
"Speaking of tricks, I remember one played by the Carlisle Indians. In addition to being crack football players, those 'noble red men' are about as smooth propositions as you'll find anywhere. The bland Ah Sin was a piker compared with them. You have to keep your eye peeled all the time. They were playing Harvard and the Indians got the ball on a kick off.
And now Saturday Afternoon had come and Percy M. Piker was hanging on the rear end of the Choo-Choo with $7 sewed up in the inside Pocket of his Vest, while in his Hand there fluttered a batch of Clippings, written by the Smoke Brothers, showing which ones were sure to win unless something happened. Mr.
When Jabez finished speakin' she turned around an' looked at Piker. "I can't figger out just whose dog-robber yon are," she sez; "but next time you go gunnin' for Silver Dick you better take the whole gang with you." It fair hurt me to see Barbie's face, so hard it was an' so different from the real Barbie: but it warmed my heart to hear the way she made that Silver Dick ring out.
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