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"You know how many baseball games we played this year, last year, year before?" said Tom, apropos of nothing. Douglas watched Tom's quickly moving lips.

"Wrote it down! One thousand five hundred sixty_eight games! How many times I brushed my teeth in ten years? Six thousand! Washing my hands: fifteen thousand. Slept: four thousand some_odd times, not counting naps. Ate six hundred peaches, eight hundred apples. Pears: two hundred. I'm not hot for pears. Name a thing, I got the statistics! Runs to the billion millions, things I done, add 'em up, in ten years."
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"Books I read: four hundred. Matinees I seen: forty Buck Joneses, thirty Jack Hoxies, forty_five Tom Mixes, thirty_nine Hoot Gibsons, one hundred and ninety_two single and separate Felix_the_Cat cartoons, ten Douglas Fairbankses, eight repeats on Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera, four Milton Sillses, and one Adolph Menjou thing about love where I spent ninety hours in the theater toilet waiting for the mush to be over so I could see The Cat and the Canary or The Bat, where everybody held onto everybody else and screamed for two hours without letting go. During that time I figure four hundred lollipops, three hundred Tootsie Rolls, seven hundred ice_cream cones ...




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