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Burglar-time

Posted by Miguel on November 09, 2003

I´ve found this expresions in a story of Mark Twain:
"It is fast getting along toward burglar-time",
"Child to the bone"
and this phrase:
"guilded disks of lead".
What are the meaning?

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