about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
"T'ought I was lyin' about the money, did ye? Well, you can frisk me if you wanter. Dat's the last simoleon in the treasury. Who's goin' to pay?"

Another brother working in an Alabama city has not sent a cold simolean or any long green since January; he has ignored several letters, but at last a registered letter found him O.K. and working.

We gladly did so with the result that we got a menu worth a dollar and a half or two dollars for a single simolean. Can you beat that?

His Veteran's insurance came to ten thousand simoleons, rather more than he could bring on the hoof.

Abetted by market-wise agents and paperback publishers with an eye for the speedy simolean, these double-gaited gonzos are perpetrating a plague of best-selling takeoffs of innocent newspapers, defenseless magazines, helpless self-help books - even the Good Book itself.

Simoleon

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