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"I just wondered if you wasn't getting to that," commented Mickey.
"Getting to what?" inquired Douglas.
"Going to do me good!" explained Mickey. "The swell stiffs are always
going to do us fellows good. Mostly they do! They do us good and brown!
They pick us up a while and make lap dogs of us, then when we've lost our
appetites for our jobs and got to having a hankerin' for the fetch and
carry business away they go and forget us, so we're a lot worse off than
we were before. Some of the fellows come out of it knowing more ways to be
mean than they ever learned on the street," explained Mickey. "If it's
that Big Brother bee you got in your bonnet, pull its stinger and let it
die an unnatural death! Nope! None! Good-bye!"
"Mickey, wait!" cried Douglas.
"Me business calls, an' I must go--'way to my ranch in Idaho!" gaily sang
Mickey.
"I'd like to shake you!" said Douglas Bruce.
"Well, go on," said Mickey. "I'm here and you're big enough."
"If I thought it would jolt out your fool notions and shake some sense in,
I would," said Douglas indignantly.


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