Young Wallingford

Jonathan Reuben Wix wins a hundred dollars at dice, then boasts of spending every cent of it in New York in a single day. His cautious neighbor Clifford Gilman has been watching—and has a risky secret of his own.

In a small town where bank clerks stick to one side of Main Street and a man’s habits are everybody’s business, Wix makes a cheerful art of avoiding respectability. Now he’s off to the Putnam County Fair with Clifford, who has saved three hundred dollars by secretly trading in wheat—and wants Wix to teach him how to live a little. Their lessons in spending lead them to a shell-game operator whose nimble fingers draw a crowd and whose confidence may have met its match in Wix. What did Wix see that the others missed?

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