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Babcs in the Jungle 37
rative, but I doubt it. I've only been in town two hours,
but it don't dawn upon me that it's ours with a cherry in it.
There ain't enough rus in urbe about it to suit me. I'd
be a good deal much better satisfied if the citizens
had a straw or more in their hair, and run more to
velveteen vests :and buckeye watch charm. They don't
look easy to me."
"You've got it, Billy," says Filver. All cmirants
have it. New York's bigger than Little Rock or Europe,
and it frightens a foreigner. You'll be all right. I tell
you I feel like slapping the people here because they don't
send me all their money in laundry baskets, with germicide
sprinkled over it. I hate to go down on the street to get it.
Who wears the diamonds in this town ? Why, Winnie,
the Wiretapper's wife, and Bella, the Buncosteerer's bride.
New Yorkers can be worked easier than a blue rose on a
tidy. The only thing that bothers me is I know I'll break
the cigars in my vest pocket when I get my clothes all full
of t.- enties."
"I hope you are right, Monty," says I; " but I wish all
the same I had been satisfied with a small business in Little
Rock. The crop of farmers is never so short out there
but what you can get a few of 'erm to sign a petition for a
new post office that you can discount for $200 at the county
bank. The people here appear to possess instincts of self-
preservation and illiberality. I fear me that we are not
cultured enough to tackle this game."II I 1
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