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It fell in lucky, too, since it more than stood off a set back which overtook him about the same time. Louie had called upon the Irish Wop, at the latter s poolroom in Fourth Avenue. This emigrant from Mayo was thin and slight and sickly, and Louie argued that he might bully him out of a handful of money. Putting on a darkest frown, he demanded fifty dollars, and intimated that dire indeed would be the consequences of refusal.
"Because, " said Louie, "when I go out for any thing I get it, see?"... The Wop coughed timidly and made a sugges tion. "Come round in half an hour, " said he, 96 THE APACHES OF NEW YORK "when the last race from New Orleans is in; I ll have the cush ready for yez. " Louie withdrew, and the Wop shoved the poker into the blazing big-bellied stove.
An hour later, that New Orleans race having been run, Louie returned. The poker being by this time white-hot, the Wop drew it forth from the stove. There were no stage waits. Applying the poker to the shrinking rear of Louie, the Wop compelled that yearner after fifty dollars to leap screechingly from a second-storey window.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It fell in lucky, too, since it more than stood off a set back which overtook him about the same time. Louie had called upon the Irish Wop, at the latter s poolroom in Fourth Avenue. This emigrant from Mayo was thin and slight and sickly, and Louie argued that he might bully him out of a handful of money. Putting on a darkest frown, he demanded fifty dollars, and intimated that dire indeed would be the consequences of refusal.
"Because, " said Louie, "when I go out for any thing I get it, see?"... The Wop coughed timidly and made a sugges tion. "Come round in half an hour, " said he, 96 THE APACHES OF NEW YORK "when the last race from New Orleans is in; I ll have the cush ready for yez. " Louie withdrew, and the Wop shoved the poker into the blazing big-bellied stove.
An hour later, that New Orleans race having been run, Louie returned. The poker being by this time white-hot, the Wop drew it forth from the stove. There were no stage waits. Applying the poker to the shrinking rear of Louie, the Wop compelled that yearner after fifty dollars to leap screechingly from a second-storey window.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lewis Alfred Henry to read onlineMoreLess
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