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    Probability
    Probability
    Probability
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    Probability

    By Louis Trimble

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Probability - Louis Trimble

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Probability, by Louis Trimble

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Probability

      Author: Louis Trimble

      Release Date: June 8, 2010 [EBook #32739]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction April 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      If you ever get to drinking beer in your favorite saloon and meet a scared little guy who wants to buy you the joint, supply you with fur coats and dolls and run you for Congress—listen well! That is, if you really want the joint, the fur coats, the dolls and a seat in Congress. Just ask Mike Murphy....

      Probability

      By Louis Trimble

      Illustration by Ed Emsh

      The first time this little guy comes in I'm new on the job. He looks around as if he's scared a prohibition agent will pop out of the walls and bite him. Then he gets up his nerve and sidles to the bar. His voice is as thin as the rest of him.

      Glass of beer.

      I draw. He drinks and pays and goes out.

      That keeps on, Monday through Friday at five-ten p.m., year in and year out. He slips in, peers around, has his beer, and pops out. Even in '33, when we become legitimate, he acts the same way—scared of his shadow. Except he isn't

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