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The Depot Master

CHAPTER X
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'The idea of sendin' two Cape Codders a couple of miles to look at FISH.

I've looked at 'em and fished for 'em, and et 'em all the days of my life,' he says, 'and when I'm on a vacation I want a change.

I'd forgot that "aquarium" meant fish, or you wouldn't have got me within smellin' distance of it.

Necessity's one thing and pleasure's another, as the boy said about takin' his ma's spring bitters.' "So we headed for the Stock Exchange.

We got our gallery tickets at the bank where the Golconda folks kept money, and in a little while we was leanin' over a kind of marble bulwarks and starin' down at a gang of men smokin' and foolin' and carryin' on.


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