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By Jack Joseph Smith

ug downy but I see the distant fear in their eyes, Byt then I would see something else in Pee cttane looks when he would say; Your nothing, byt a fucking phony, Frost; Wendell, How can you say that? Ass hole, And just where did that come from? From the Dandy, of courses Give-me anotther beers you ass holes 2 Idon't think you have paid your two dollers yet Dandy? Who gives a-shit? i Wendedy .do you give-a shit? Fucking Dandy can do whatever: the fuck he feels like fucking doings’ Beaver was dancing around somewhere between the tear drops of his dreams, when I asked hin: Beavers do you think Dandy should give a shit about paying me two dollars? He's the Dandy, But as far as I am concerned, it's written dom if he dosen't pays And if dosen't be careful, we'll plug up his ears dyring the next time around with, Irish Byes. are- Smiling; Well Dandy, I have a business to operate, Eahg Is that’ supposed to take the place of laughter Dandyf Eah, Dandy had mastered’ avery powerful, and cregtive extention of himself; It was eah;. The sound was quite long, and it kind of ruffeled its way through his throats He was

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O'Dandy gets called a phony, dodges paying his two dollars, answers nearly everything with his dragged-out eah, and becomes the center of a rough comic argument that exposes both his swagger and the group's strange tolerance for it.

The OCR is rough in spots, but the social pattern is still plain: the whole exchange circles around O'Dandy's lazy, needling style and the way everyone keeps adjusting themselves to it. His repeated eah works like a mask, ridiculous on the surface but oddly effective in holding the group's attention.

Claude

O'Dandy's perfected sound — eah — is defined as a long throat-ruffeled extension, and his infamous statement I'll drill ya gets labeled; the scene continues to push O'Dandy into admitting he is the only playwright in the room worth listening to.