buck which was all that was
left to us from our frittered and dissipated fortunes, and I started
east, travelling second class and living very frugally on the way. And
that was about all that happened, worthy of note, with the exception of
a violent personal dispute occurring between me and a train-butch coming
out of Ashtabula."
"What was the cause?" I asked as Scandalous stood up and smoothed down
his waistcoat.
"I had just one thin dime left," said Scandalous, "and I explained my
predicament to the butch, saying as how I wanted what was the most
filling thing he had for the price--and he offered me a sack of
peanuts!"
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation was retained where a majority
consensus could not be ascertained.
Page vii, "wrs" changed to "was" (Second was April)
Page 88, "noisely" changed to "noisily" (noisily up too)
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