# That was then, this is now
# SE Hinton
# Fontana Lion edition, 1975 (originallly published 1971)
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#This book was typed onto the computer by
#Elaine Vail in the Dept. Electronics and Computer Science
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#AGAINST THE ORIGINAL
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#Sebastian Rahtz January 6 1987
#Computer Science
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<A S. E. Hinton>
<T That was then, this is now>
<C 1>
Mark and me went down to the bar/pool hall about two or three blocks
away from where we lived with the sole intention of making some money.
We'd done that before. I was a really good pool player, especially for
being just sixteen years old, and, what's more, I look like a baby-faced
kid who wouldn't know one ball from another. This, and the way Mark set
me up, helped me hustle a . . .