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But when I sit in the next legislature of this state as Representative Britt of Egypt, I propose to represent a town that ain't slurred at home or abroad. Hereafter, mind your tongue and advise others to do the same." He stamped out. Landlord Files was left standing with an open mouth from which no speech issued. "Emperor, or only a plain king?" inquired the bagman.

'Yes, sir, said he in his quiet way, answering me, although I had not spoken, 'I am afraid there is less liberty of opinion in France than you may imagine. And with that he dropped his eyes, and seemed to consider the subject at an end. Our curiosity was mightily excited at this. How, or why, or when, was this lymphatic bagman martyred?

Indeed, I would have slipped away, but each time I attempted to do so the Bagman would appeal to me to corroborate some statement. "Galloping Dick himself, or I'm a Dutchman!" he cried for the twentieth time; "up he comes, bold as brass, bless you, and a horse-pistol in each hand.

It boasts of a sanded parlour, with a bar at one end, looking on the street; and another sanded parlour, darker and colder, with an empty bird-cage and a tricolor subscription box by way of sole adornment, where we made shift to dine in the company of three uncommunicative engineer apprentices and a silent bagman.

The politician was not solely an eloquent and persuasive bagman travelling for certain business men; he was bound to mix even his corruption with some intelligible ideals and rules of policy. And the proof of it is this: that at least it was the statesman who bulked large in the public eye; and his financial backer was entirely in the background.

He had a faint hope that the announcement might affect the other as it had affected the bagman at Kilchrist. "Golly, what a name!" exclaimed the young man rudely. Dickson was nettled. "It's very old Highland," he said. "It means the son of a dog." "Which Christian name or surname?" Then the young man appeared to think he had gone too far, for he smiled pleasantly. "And a very good name too.

The empty bird-cage, swept and garnished, and with no trace of the old piping favourite, save where two wires had been pushed apart to hold its lump of sugar, carried with it a sort of graveyard cheer. The engineer apprentices would have nothing to say to us, nor indeed to the bagman; but talked low and sparingly to one another, or raked us in the gaslight with a gleam of spectacles.

Or think, I pray you, of a circumstance still less improbable, which will illustrate what it is to be a bagman in Iowa.

Perhaps Peter's most famous achievement was his demolition of a south country bagman, who had made himself unpleasant, and the story was much tasted by our guard's admirers.

Sir Harry would not have cared if all his guests had gone together. Peace and order being at length restored, the conversation again turned upon Mr. Sponge. 'In course, replied Bob Spangles; 'it's no use keeping the hungry brutes unless you work them. 'You'll have a bagman, I presume, observed Captain Seedeybuck, who did not like the trouble of travelling about the country to draw for a fox.