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pier. "I hope you're not frightfully sick about it?" he said at length. "It was lying about, you know, and I rather felt I must have it. Hadn't the cheek to ask you for it, so..." "Don't apologize," said Sally cordially. "Great compliment. So I have caused your downfall again, have I? I'm certainly your evil genius, Ginger. I'm beginning to feel like a regular rag and a bone and a hank of hair. First I egged you on to insult your family--oh, by the way, I want to thank you about that. Now that I've met your Uncle Donald I can see how public-spirited you were. I ruined your prospects there, and now my fatal beauty--cabinet size--has led to your destruction once more. It's certainly up to me to find you another job, I can see that." "No, really, I say, you mustn't bother. I shall be all right." "It's my duty. Now what is there that you really can do? Burglary, of course, but it's not respectable. You've tried being a waiter and a prize-fighter and a right-hand man, and none of those seems to be just right. Can't you suggest anything?" Ginger shook his head. "I shall wangle something, I expect."' "Yes, but what? It must be something good this time. I don't want to be walking along Broadway and come on you suddenly as a street-cleaner. I don't want to send for an express-man and find you popping up. My idea would be to go to my bank to arrange an overdraft and be told the president could give me two minutes and crawl in humbly and find you prezzing away to beat the band in a big chair. Isn't there anything in the world that you can do that's solid and substantial and will keep you out of the poor-house in your old age? Think!" "Of course, if I had a bit of capital..." "Ah! The business man! And what," inquired Sally, "would you do, Mr. Morgan, if you had a bit of capital?" "Run a dog-thingummy," said Ginger promptly. "What's a dog-thingummy?" "Why, a thingamajig. For dogs, you know." Sally nodded. "Oh, a thingamajig for dogs? Now I understand. You will put things so obscurely at first. Ginger, you poor fish, what are you raving about? What on earth is a thingamajig for dogs?" "I mean a sort of place like fellows have. Breeding dogs, you know, and selling them and winning prizes and all that. There are lots of them about." "Oh, a kennels?" "Yes, a kennels." "What a weird mind you have, Ginger. You couldn't say kennels at first, could you? That wouldn't have made it difficult enough.
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