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Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

CHAPTER VI
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His rascality ain't to be measured.

Why, he kin walk through a man's pockets, jest as the devil goes through a crack or a keyhole, and the money will naterally stick to him, jest as ef he was made of gum turpentine.

His very face is a sort of kining [coining] machine.

His look says dollars and cents; and its always your dollars and cents, and he kines them out of your hands into his'n, jest with a roll of his eye, and a mighty leetle turn of his finger.

He cheats in everything, and cheats everybody.


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