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The Attache

CHAPTER V
10/17

You appear to view the practice with a proper Christian disgust; and yet you talk like an amateur.

Oh, the thing is sickening." "It is, indeed," said Mr.Slick, "particularly to him that loses his peeper.

But the dexterity, you know, is another thing.

It is very scientific.

He has two niggers, has Squire Wormwood, who teach the wrastlin' and gouge-sparrin'; but practisin' for the eye is done for punishment of runaways.


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