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Babes in the Jungle 35
these people. They only know this and that and pass to
and fro and think ever and anon. I'd hate for my mother
to know I was skinning these weak-minded ones. She
raised me better."
"Is there a crush already in the waiting rooms of the
old doctor that does skin grafting ?" I asks.
"Well, no," says Silver; "you needn't back Epidermis
to win to-day. I've only been here a month. But I'm
ready to begin; and the members of Willie Manhattlan'i
Sunday School class, each of whom has volunteered It
contribute a portion of cuticle toward this reliabilitatic.
may as well send their photos to the Evening Daily.
"I've been studying the town," says Silver, "and read-
ing the papers every day, and I know it as well as the cat
in the City Hall knows an O'Sullivan. People here lie
down on the floor and scream and kick when you are the
least bit slow about taking money from them. Come up
in my room and I'll tell you. We'll work the town together,
Billy, for the sake of old times."
Silver takes me up in a hotel. He has a quantity of
irrelevant objects lying about.
"There's more ways of getting money from these
metropolitan hayseeds," says Silver, "than there is of
cooking rice in Charleston, S. C. They'll bite at any-
thing. The brains of most of 'em commute. The wiser
they are in intelligence the less perception of cognizance
they have. Why, didn't a man the other day sell J. F.I , 1
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