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Flowing Gold

CHAPTER XVI
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The dealer is entitled to his percentage, ain't he?
Now listen.

Everybody's getting set for a big play over in Arkansas, as you know--salting away cheap acreage and waiting for some of the wildcats to come in.

Well, last year I had a tool dresser from up there; nice boy, but he got pneumonia and it turned into the 'con,' so I took him home.

He's back on his farm now, coughing his life away and doing a little bootleggin' to keep body and cough together.

He's got a big place, but it's all run down and so poor you couldn't raise a dust on it with a bellows.


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