I saw the girls staring after me as if they thought me crazy.

It was awful." "Oh, well, you mustn't mind the loss of a few dollars," said Andy Emery.
"A man can make a fortune in this country picking up chips--if he puts them on the right card." "Put a little perfumery on that before you use it again, Emery," grinned Tad Horner.

"It's got whiskers." "I think Swallows all right, but he reminds me of a man I knew once on a time.

I haven't seen Swallows when he had over twenty-five at a time since he's been here, and still he says he dropped a hundred and ten in one game." "How about this man you knew ?" asked Parker.
"He was a great fellow to stretch the long bow, and it became such a habit that he could not break it.

He seemed to prefer a falsehood to the truth, even when the truth would have served him better.