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Runyon 4x-xx-xx ep02 Little Miss Marker

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The Damon Runyon Theatre. Once again, the Damon Runyon Theatre brings you another story by the master of storytellers, Damon Runyon, and this, one of his most famous, Little Miss Marker. And to tell it to you, here is Broadway.

Thanks. This is Broadway, speaking. Maybe you know a guy we call Sarah Full Jones. He makes a living by making a book. And that is to say, he is slightly illegal because he takes bets on the horses if one is not able to get to the track through the circumstances. Most of the guys in dance along Broadway tell you that Sarifull is a rich man. That is true. It is

true because Sarifull not only remembers the face nickel he makes as a boy, but the same nickel is still in his position. All at once Sarifull is a changed man, and how it happens that Sarifull is changed is quite a story, which I will tell you in a minute.

Well back to the Damon Runyon Theatre and Little Miss Marker. As I am saying, Sirifil Jones is a character who is not alive. He gets his name from the fact that anything like a smile is a stranger to his long face.

Well, as it happens, I am sitting named Mindy's one night, along with a citizen named Regret who is a horse-blader. We are discussing Sirifil Jones when Regret looks up and says, And if you are speaking of the devil, you may look toward the door and see same.

Saraful Jones coming into Mindy's? There must be a catastrophe outside which drives him in. Look, he's got a doll with him. And now, but a midget one. Oh, it is no midget. This is a small doll at Shail. He's coming over. And the chances are better than a midget to one that he will have

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