Strictly Business; More Stories of the Four Million
Strictly Business; More Stories of the Four Million
Henry O.
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" The steerer looked pained, and investigated a white speck on his leftforefinger nail. "Cheese it, old man, " he murmured, reproachfully. "The Central Officemust be bughouse to send you out looking like such a gillie. Youcouldn't get within two blocks of a sidewalk crap game in them TonyPastor props. The recent Mr. Scotty from Death Valley has got you beata crosstown block in the way of Elizabethan scenery and mechanicalaccessories. Let it be skiddoo for yours. Nay, I know of no gilded hallswh...ere one may bet a patrol wagon on the ace. " Rebuffed once again by the great city that is so swift to detectartificialities, Haylocks sat upon the curb and presented his thoughtsto hold a conference. "It's my clothes, " said he; "durned if it ain't. They think I'm ahayseed and won't have nothin' to do with me. Nobody never made fun ofthis hat in Ulster County. I guess if you want folks to notice you inNew York you must dress up like they do. " So Haylocks went shopping in the bazaars where men spake through theirnoses and rubbed their hands and ran the tape line ecstatically over thebulge in his inside pocket where reposed a red nubbin of corn with aneven number of rows.
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