It is
very vivid, and as a portrayal of history, is truly educational."
"And when it is done--what becomes of the men?"
Utterly hopeless, you see! We were right back on the forbidden
ground! "How do you mean?" I evaded.
"I mean, how do they live?"
"Dey got deir five dollars, ain't dey?" It was T-S, of course.
"Yes, but that won' last very long, will it? What is the cost of
this dinner we are eating?"
The magnate of the movies looked to the speaker, and then burst into
a laugh. "Ho, ho, ho! Dat's a good vun!"
Said I, hastily: "Mr. T-S means that there are cheaper eating places
to be found."
"Well," said Carpenter, "why don't we find one?"
"It's no use, Billy. He thinks it's up to me to feed all de bums on
de lot. Is dat it, Mr. Carpenter?"
"I can't say, Mr. T-S; I don't know how many there are, and I don't
know how rich you are."
"Vell, dey got five million out o' verks in this country now, and if
I vanted to bust myself, I could feed 'em vun day, maybe two. But
ven I got done, dey vouldn't be nobody to make pictures, and
somebody vould have to feed old Abey--or maybe me and Maw could go
back to carryin' pants in a push cart! If you tink I vouldn't like
to see all de hungry fed, you got me wrong, Mr.
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