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Old 06-28-2018, 10:18 AM   #76
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
Some more obscure stories, but well worth one's time.

#1 - She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the lords of creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won.

#2 - If I had cared to live, I would have died.

#3 - When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up. It had been a money-maker - but it was over.

#4 - Gallegher played by ear, which would have been all right if he had been a musician - but he was a scientist.

#5 - I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker called Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.
I wouldn't call #5 obscure. It's Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, the inspiration for the movies Yojimbo and For A Few Dollars More.
"Poisonville" gives it away.
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