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[Masiejczyk <ste...@li...>]

Ure of knowing before; and from him I learned many interesting anecdotes
of individuals whom he pointed out as having been once well known about
town, but whose attachment to gambling had effected their ruin. Personal
stories of this kind are, however, not within the scope of this work. As
soon as we entered, Mr. Slick called my attention to the carriages which
were exhibited for sale, to their elegant shape and "beautiful fixins,"
as he termed it; but ridiculed, in no measured terms, their enormous
weight. "It is no wonder," said he, "they have to get fresh hosses here
every ten miles, and travellin' costs so much, when the carriage alone
is enough to kill beasts. What would Old Bull say, if I was to tell him
of one pair of hosses carryin' three or four people, forty or fifty
miles a-day, day in and day out, hand runnin' for a fortnight? Why, he'd
either be too civil to tell me it was a lie, or bein' afeerd I'd jump
down his throat if he did, he'd sing dumb, and let me see by his looks,
he thought so, though. "I intend to take the consait out of these chaps,
and that's a fact. If I don't put the leak into 'em afore I've done with
them, my name ain't Sam Slick, that's a fact. I'm studyin' the ins and
the outs of this place,