When asked to join the game he declined, saying he had a hundred reasons for not playing. “Give us one,” they asked.
“The first one is, I haven’t any money.”
“You can stick the other 99 in your hip-pocket,” came the final chorus.
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“Speaking of famous springs,” said the tramp to the tourist, “I bathed in the spring of ’86.”
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Many are dressed, but few are clothed.
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There is no prospect of an early reduction in the wages of sin.