It's a hell of a lot of fun—her crackin' jokes all the time.
Like she says one time, she says,I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor
an' a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're running a parlor house.’
That’s Clara’s house she’s talkin’ about. An’ Susy says, ‘I know what you boys want,’ she says.”
‘My girls is clean,’ she says, ‘an’ there ain’t no water in my whisky,’ she says.”
“‘If any you guys wanta look at a kewpie doll lamp an’ take your own chance gettin’ burned, why you know where to go.’
“An’ she says, ‘There’s guys around here walkin’ bow-legged ’cause they like to look at a kewpie doll lamp.’
George asked, “Clara runs the other house, huh?” “Yeah,” said Whit. “We don’t never go there.
Clara gets three bucks a crack and thirty-five cents a shot, and she don’t crack no jokes.
But Susy’s place is clean and she got nice chairs. Don’t let no googoos in, neither.
Me an’ Lennie’s rollin’ up a stake,said George.I might go in an’ set and have a shot, but I ain’t puffin’ out no two and a half.
Well, a guy got to have some fun sometime,said Whit. The door opened and Lennie and Carlson came in together.
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