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The Gibson Upright by Booth Tarkington
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GIBSON: Why?

FRANKEL: "_Why_," Mr. Gibson! Did you want to know _why_?

GIBSON: Yes, I do. You men signed an agreement with me just eleven days
ago--

FRANKEL [_hotly protesting_]: But we never understood it when we signed
it. How'd we know what we was signing?

GIBSON: Can't you read, Frankel?

FRANKEL: What's reading got to do with it, when it reads all one way?

GIBSON: Didn't you understand it, Carter?

CARTER: Well--I can't say I did.

GIBSON: _Why_ can't you say it? It was plain black and white.

CARTER: Well, I was kind o' foggy about the overtime.

GIBSON: The agreement was that you were to have time and a half for
overtime. What was foggy about that?

CARTER: Well, I don't say you didn't give us what we was askin' right
_then_; but things have changed since then.

GIBSON: What's changed in eleven days?
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