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`` Let me see , '' said Wingo , calculating , `` if I lose this -- why still -- '' He lost . `` But I 'll not have to ask you to accept my papuh , suh . Wingo liquidates . Fo ` ty days at six dolluhs a day makes six times fo ' is twenty-fo ' -- two hun ` red an ' fo ` ty dolluhs spot cash in hand at noon , without computation of mileage to and from Silver City at fo ' dolluhs every twenty miles , estimated according to the nearest usually travelled route . '' He was reciting part of the statute providing mileage for Idaho legislators . He had never served the public before , and he knew all the laws concerning compensation by heart . `` You 'll not have to wait fo ' yoh money , suh , '' he concluded .