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John Grant: [on Two-up] There's a nice, simple-minded game.
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Jock Crawford: [watching John drink a beer] Better?
John Grant: Yes, better. Thanks, mate.
Jock Crawford: Have another one!
John Grant: Oh... no, I don't really like to.
Jock Crawford: One more beer, thanks, Joyce.
[Joyce pours John another beer]
John Grant: [nervously] Jock, you damn near saved my life just now, how 'bout... completing the job by giving me a cigarette, huh?
[Crawford hands him one]
John Grant: Thanks.
Jock Crawford: [lights the cigarette] I thought you were pulling out of The Yabba on Saturday.
John Grant: Hmm? Oh, yes, yes, I was.
Jock Crawford: What went wrong?
John Grant: Oh, I got involved.
Al Thomas
Extended Reading
