Dashiell Hammett Quotes
I First Heard Personville Called Poisonville By A Red-haired Mucker Named Hickey Dewey In The Big Ship In Butte. He Also Called His Shirt A Shoit. I Didn't Think Anything Of What He Had Done To The City's Name. Later I Heard Men Who Could Manage Their R's Give It The Same Pronunciation. I Still Didn't See Anything In It But The Meaningless Sort Of Humor That Used To Make Richardsnary The Thieves' Word For Dictionary. A Few Years Later I Went To Personville And Learned Better.
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