Meg Mcintyre's Raffle And Other Stories: And Other Stories
Meg Mcintyre's Raffle And Other Stories: And Other Stories
Alvan F Alvan Francis Sanborn
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Without an instant's hesitation Jack tore up the undelivered message, made Buster sign for it in the book, and gave him his hand in token of acceptance ; although he had not a copper himself, and all Buster had lacked ten cents of being enough to pay the car-fare one way. The deficit could and must be made up at once. Getting to the picnic was the impor- tant thing; as for getting back, that would somehow take care of itself. But for one thing, Jack would have assumed the whine he had been trai...ned to as a child, and begged the money. His uniform was a theoretical as well as a practical hindrance to that. On CAREER OF SHUFFLES 121 the one hand, a liveried employee would be slow to excite the pity that sheds dimes ; on the other, the beautiful regalia could not be disgraced by begging. IJnder the circum- stances it would be easier, quicker, neater, more becoming, better every way, to steal the dime, or rather " pinch the dime, " for that, by a curious refinement of language, was the way Jack put it to himself.
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