The Nimble Dollar: With Other Stories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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One, two, and two 'sfour, and one 'sfive, aim, he said rapidly, and paused to wet his finger, but did not. I supposed, he re marked, in a. High complaining draw], and with his finger suspended, that I was a-liv ing among honest folks, not a passe] of scally wags, not to say thieves out and out. I 've been in this store man and boy nigh on to forty year, and I hain't never cheated nobody far 's I know, and nobody hain't ever cheated me, nor stole from me nuther. And now here I be losing money right and left. The last time five dollars was took, 'most. I can't stand such peculation lon g without going to the poor farm; and a mighty poor farm it is, too, seeing what ain't stumps is boulders.

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