so, that's all I've got to say. Naturally I'd always had a great reverence for Joe—
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Oh here you are, son! My God, why didn't you take all night to bring up the cards? Got the White Rock? Oh you have, have you! Well, I didn't expect it. Well, here's a quarter for yourself, and you can go out and invest it in G.M.C. stock, but be sure to get the preferred.
Well gentlemen, here's the new cards, and now at last, thank God, we can get on with the game. But if you'll grant me just one more moment, I'd like to finish this story that Mack McMack told me. When you hear it I think you'll agree with me that it was worth taking out the time even from a poker game.
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Well, as I say, just to get the background of the story straight, Joe Minchin and I were both on this Americanization Committee, and I could see