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Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by loveable street urchins cleaning out

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our chim please shining our shoes and warming our hearts

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since eighteen twenty eight Okay well apparently there were draws

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to being a newsy other than just singing dancing And

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you know those sweet puffy caps According to jack london

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you could make a little moola too he's describing the

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dubiously ethical practice of buying two newspapers at once and

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then selling them both separately Now low level con artistry

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isn't really an example of kindness even if it does

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usually come of a smile And while we do encourage

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everyone to read newspapers staying on top of current events

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is cool The writer is talking about selling them not

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reading them much like many a former president he's interested

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in the bank not the books and he's not referring

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to the physical act of wrist rotation either This is

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more ranch last medical textbook What he's really talking about

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is how easy it was to make a quick buck

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The turn of the wrist doesn't take much time and

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neither does snatching a sucker's nickel Well d to do

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Something quickly is the correct answer Now grab your mop 00:01:08.515 --> [endTime] surgeons and get back to work

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