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# That was then, this is now # SE Hinton # Fontana Lion edition, 1975 (originallly published 1971) # #This book was typed onto the computer by #Elaine Vail in the Dept. Electronics and Computer Science #IT HAS NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY CHECKED #AGAINST THE ORIGINAL #Fontana have NOT given permission for this work # #Markup is COCOA - A for author, T for title, C for chapter # #Sebastian Rahtz January 6 1987 #Computer Science #University #Southampton S09 5NH #0703 559122 ext 2435 #e-mail spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm ################################################### <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 . . .