[Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane]@TWC D-Link bookMaggie: A Girl of the Streets CHAPTER V 5/9
Maggie thought he must be a very elegant and graceful bartender. He was telling tales to Jimmie. Maggie watched him furtively, with half-closed eyes, lit with a vague interest. "Hully gee! Dey makes me tired," he said.
"Mos' e'ry day some farmer comes in an' tries teh run deh shop.
See? But dey gits t'rowed right out! I jolt dem right out in deh street before dey knows where dey is! See ?" "Sure," said Jimmie. "Dere was a mug come in deh place deh odder day wid an idear he wus goin' teh own deh place! Hully gee, he wus goin' teh own deh place! I see he had a still on an' I didn' wanna giv 'im no stuff, so I says: 'Git deh hell outa here an' don' make no trouble,' I says like dat! See? 'Git deh hell outa here an' don' make no trouble'; like dat. 'Git deh hell outa here,' I says.
See ?" Jimmie nodded understandingly.
Over his features played an eager desire to state the amount of his valor in a similar crisis, but the narrator proceeded. "Well, deh blokie he says: 'T'hell wid it! I ain' lookin' for no scrap,' he says (See ?), 'but' he says, 'I'm 'spectable cit'zen an' I wanna drink an' purtydamnsoon, too.' See? 'Deh hell,' I says.
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