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LEGITIMATE BUSINESS.
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"Hang him, he had on two pair of boots!" For an hour that magician went on shuffling and pulling off boots till he had shed as many as twenty-five pair, and I was hovering on the verge of lunacy. I got my gun and stole up there. The fellow was in the midst of an acre of sprawling boots, and he had a boot in his hand, shuffling it—no I mean polishing it. The mystery was explained. He hadn't been dancing. He was the "Boots" of the hotel, and was attending to business.
