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"All."-"Now don't you feel small?" "Boose."-"Here, Levin, crawl into my vest pocket." "G. L."-"Come to order here, Bucky, are you going?" "Becky." _ "Yes, sir, I am going." "G. L."-"Good eye Bucky, Ellie are you?" "Ellie." _ "If anybody else does." "G. L."-"That's the stuff. How about you Ben?" "Ben."-"I am sorry, but I am afraid I can't." "All."-"Why not?" "Ben."-"I am financially embarrassed just at present." "Simp."-"He means he is 'busted.''' "Shammy."-"So say we all of us." "Paul."-"Don't you think you can recover form your embarrassment enough to go along tomorrow?" "Ben."-"I think not." "Ellie."-"He is afraid of the females, if he should happen to fall in with a woman, he would be embarrassed more ways than financially." "G. L." _"W ell, Alkie, of course you are going." "Alkie."-"No-o, sir, I would not just say that." "Shammy."-"You'd better go Alkie, we'll get something good to eat." "Alkie."-"Yes and pay a fortune for it." "Ben."-"Why can't you go Alkie?" "Alkie."-"Oh the Hex, I've got a corn on my elbow," "G. L."-"Insley will you go?" "Lev."-"I have not quite decided yet, but I rather think I will not." "Simp."-"What's the matter with you?" "Lev."-"Upon a thorough and comprehensive consideration of the matter, and after weighing carefully in my mind the various, I may say, manifold inducements to my participation in the contemplated excursion to Pen Mar, and after a most profound deliberation I have arrived at the conc1usion-" 178