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F IVE billion dollars to make the United States a mammoth Garden of Eden , every acre of which shall yield abundantly , every road of which shall be as smooth and level as a turnpike , every river of which shall bear on its broad bosom ...
F IVE billion dollars to make the United States a mammoth Garden of Eden , every acre of which shall yield abundantly , every road of which shall be as smooth and level as a turnpike , every river of which shall bear on its broad bosom ...
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He bets a dollar . Somebody takes the bet - ' fades ' m , ' and he rolls the dice . If he throws seven or eleven he wins ; if he throws double sixes , double aces , or ace and deuce , he loses . That's craps . But suppose he rolls eight ...
He bets a dollar . Somebody takes the bet - ' fades ' m , ' and he rolls the dice . If he throws seven or eleven he wins ; if he throws double sixes , double aces , or ace and deuce , he loses . That's craps . But suppose he rolls eight ...
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When the dice came around to him he said : " Dollar I shoot . " Brutus promptly tossed a coin beside it . Without any preliminaries Bowleg rolled the dice ; " Seben , " announced the pass - picker " Two dollars I shoot " -and Bowleg ...
When the dice came around to him he said : " Dollar I shoot . " Brutus promptly tossed a coin beside it . Without any preliminaries Bowleg rolled the dice ; " Seben , " announced the pass - picker " Two dollars I shoot " -and Bowleg ...
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