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1  I bet she even gives the stable buck the eye.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
2  Tha's three hunderd an fifty bucks I'd put in.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
3  Slim followed the stable buck out of the room.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
4  But the stable buck don't give a damn about that.
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Context   In CHAPTER 2
5  That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin a gut.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
6  We wouldn't have to buck no barley eleven hours a day.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
7  Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags.
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Context   In CHAPTER 2
8  In the stable buck's room a small electric globe threw a meager yellow light.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
9  Clara gets three bucks a crack and thirty-five cents a shot, and she don't crack no jokes.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
10  The stable buck went on dreamily, "I remember when I was a little kid on my old man's chicken ranch."
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
11  The door opened quietly and the stable buck put in his head; a lean negro head, lined with pain, the eyes patient.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
12  CROOKS, THE NEGRO stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
13  No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
14  And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4