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Updated: June 13, 2025
The "leopard-boy of Africa," so extensively advertised by dime museums over the country, was a well-defined case of leukoderma in a young mulatto, a fitting parallel for the case of ichthyosis styled the "alligator-boy." Leukoderma is more common among females. It is rarely seen in children, being particularly a disease of middle age.
" guess she was born the way she was ... she never could stay still a minute ... always fidgettin' ... when she was a little girl, even I used to say, 'Now, look here, Phoebe, I'd say, 'your ma 'ull give you a whole dime all at once if you'll set still jest for five minutes in that chair. An' she'd try ... and, before sixty seconds was ticked off she'd be on her feet, sayin', 'Ma, I guess you kin keep that dime.
It seemed at first it must be a joke or a dream anybody asking him if he wanted one, but the man was beckoning to him, so he pulled himself together and ran up the steps. "Now here's a little package" he took something out of the mail box. "It doesn't belong here. It's to go to three-hundred-two Pleasant street. You take it for a dime?" Stubby nodded.
I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened to you since you have been in London?" "Why, no, Mr. Holmes. I think not." "You have not observed anyone follow or watch you?" "I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor. "Why in thunder should anyone follow or watch me?"
At last—my own self, my green tam, my brown coat over the blue-checked apron, chewing a stick of Black Jack, hung over the railing and for five whole minutes and watched the men on the steel skeleton. All the time my salary was going on just the same. I was hoping the boss would tip me—say, a dime—for running his errands. Otherwise I might never get a tip from anyone. He did not.
The clink of glasses and the popping of corks punctuated the music with a frequency which would have delighted the soul of the most ardent lover of commas, all of which so overpowered the grand master boatman of the Stygian Ferry Company that he dropped three oboli and an American dime, which he carried as a pocket-piece, overboard.
He had been cast off by a drunken father and mother, and was living on what he could scrape out of ash barrels, and an occasional dime for kindling-wood which he sold from a wheelbarrow, when the gang found and adopted him. My friend adopted the gang in her turn, and civilized it by slow stages.
I was takin' you straight and you promised me a quarter." "To hell with you and your quarter. Didn't you hear me say get out?" The thought of the quarter gave Tito a desperate courage; his voice rose in a protesting wail: "But I done half already you're halfway acrost. You'd oughter give me a dime. I've done more than a dime's worth."
"Did you see him reclinin' on that Yuma grasshopper," said Bud Light, "and pertendin' he was ridin' a hoss?" "And then," added Billy Dime, "he gets so het up and proud that he rides right over to the ladies, and 'flop' he goes like swattin' a frog with a shingle. He rides about five rods on the cayuse and then five more on his map. Collie's sure tough. How's your mug, kid?"
You shall have the best I can give you. 'I shall speag to you, said Darco, 'with an egsdreme blain-ness. I haf not forgotten our first parting. You did not dreat me well. 'I know I didn't, Paul said. 'Ant now, continued Darco, refusing to be mollified all at once, 'you haf wasted months of valuable dime, ant you ant I are both the poorer by hundrets ant hundrets of pounts.
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