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Guys and Dolls

Damon Runyon

Form
Form Short Story Collection
Year
Year 1931
Pages
Pages 250

A father's advice in these pages runs like this: some day a guy will show you a deck with the seal unbroken and offer to bet that the jack of spades will jump out and squirt cider in your ear, and son, do not bet him, for you will get an ear full of cider. Nobody here says don't.

this Rusty Charley is what is called a gorill, because he is known to often carry a gun in his pants pocket
Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon

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