Two bits


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a quarter of a dollar (25 cents). "shave and a hair cut, two bits", a service offered by a barbershop for 25 cents.

 
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I seen them lay a pencil down, and that witch doctor stood there and made that pencil stand up, and run up-and-down on a place up there, and come back and played, like, "shave and a hair cut, two bits," and drawed out a unknown tongue and wrote it out, and one of them stood there interpreting it. Oh, my.

 

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