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"I'm plumb busted," said he frankly, "and that's the reason I couldn't chip in. I couldn't buy fleas for a dawg. I'm afraid you didn't win much." The preacher looked gloomily at a nickle and a ten-cent piece. "Dependin' on this sort of thing to get along?" asked California John. "Yes," said the preacher. The woman looked out of the window.
A tough but not unpleasant young face appeared at the window. It was the bartender. "Evening, cutie," said he. "What'll you have?" "Some rye whiskey," replied Susan. "May I smoke a cigarette here?" "Sure, go as far as you like. Ten-cent whiskey or fifteen?" "Fifteen unless it's out of the same bottle as the ten." "Call it ten seeing as you are a lady. I've got a soft heart for you ladies.
We were absolutely down to bed-rock that year anyway. We gave each of the boys a ten-cent cap-pistol and five cents' worth of caps they were in their Paradise. I mended three shirts of Carl's that had been in my basket so long they were really like new to him, he'd forgotten he owned them! laundered them, and hung the trio, tied in tissue paper and red ribbon, on the tree. That was a Christmas!
Again they would say: 'Now go down into hell; and the scene changed as suddenly as do those of a ten-cent panorama, when a midnight storm at sea or a volcanic eruption is about to be rolled in view: I went down ad imis 'down to the bottom of the sea the earth with her bars was around me forever. Blank horror and anguish seized me.
"Yes, and she now remembers that he had a very heavy scar over his right eye. Her description and these few scraps of paper torn from the book he was carrying are all that we have to guide us in our search." The Governor-General held up the several remnants of a ten-cent magazine. "It is in English; I read it badly."
"I'm goin' to sell newspapers if I can get some with this," he replied, opening his hand to show her the extent of his resources. She was almost as poor as he was, but not quite. She looked him over curiously for a moment, and then fumbled in her pocket. She drew out two ten-cent pieces and considered them, hesitating. Then she looked again at him.
With this make three or four omelettes about the thickness of a ten-cent piece. As the omelettes are finished lay them on a napkin to cool; then cut them transversely into strips about one-quarter of an inch wide. Then put the strips into a saucepan with some heated butter. Heat them through thoroughly and serve with grated cheese and the following meat sauce poured over them: MEAT SAUCE
The remarks which would entertain, so Farr pondered, would come when the colonel was informed that the assault consisted of a lone iceman making talk to women in kitchens. "However," said the iceman to himself, as he checked a nick in a ten-cent cube at the back of his cart. "I hold that my new motto is all right, and old Etienne will indorse it, and he knows what self-sacrifice consists of.
"Whom you will find so busy with preparations for prosecuting you that he will not at once find leisure to prosecute for you." Hendricks sought to veil his terror under a seeming of bluster. "Will you buy the district attorney, too? Some men are not purchasable." "That may resolve itself into a matter of price. I am not shopping in ten-cent stores, Mr. Hendricks."
And clutched in each and every tiny tot's chubby hand is a bag of peanuts, five-cent size or ten-cent size, but mostly five-cent size. As Emily sees 'em coming, she smiles until she looks in the face like one of these here old-fashioned red-brick Colonial fireplaces, with an overgrown black Christmas stocking hanging down from the centre of the mantel.
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