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"Kin he read an' write?" asked a person of thirty-six, who had "picked up" the mentioned accomplishments at the age of thirty-five. "He's alive and smart as mustard!" put in Keno, a champion by right of prior acquaintance with the timid little man. "Wal, that's all right, but mustard don't do no sums in 'rithmetic," said the bar-keep. "I'm kind of stuck, myself, on this here pup."
"I beg your pardon, sir!" says the little man, as he pulled himself up just in time to keep from bumping. Charley bowed handsome there was no ketching off Santa Fé when it come to slinging good manners, his being that gentlemanly he could a-give points to a New York bar-keep and says back: "Sir, I beg yours! Heedlessness is my besetting sin. The fault is mine!"
Do you fellers think we'd ought to git up a party and take 'em all to Fremont, as soon as they're able to stand the trip?" Bone, the bar-keep answered: "What's the matter with gittin' the preacher and his wife and three little gals to come back here and settle in Borealis?
His influence was acknowledged not only by his flock, but by the policeman at the corner, the "bar-keep'" in the dive, the ward politician in the corner grocery. The general verdict of Dunstable was that the Point would have been hell without the priest.
What gr-reat advances has science made in my time an' Victorya's! f'r, whin we entered public life, it took three men to watch th' bar-keep, while to-day ye can tell within eight dollars an hour what he's took in.
I despise exaggeration 'tain't American or scientific but as true as I'm sitting here like a blue-ended baboon in a kloof, Teddy Roosevelt's Western tour was a maiden's sigh compared to my advertising work. "'Long in the spring I was rescued by a commandant called Van Zyl a big, fleshy man with a lame leg. Take away his hair and his gun and he'd make a first-class Schenectady bar-keep.
Billy bowed over her hand, lingeringly and politely, but once releasing it, he shook his big frame, and straightening up, drew a long deep breath of something very like relief. "With all deference to your delightful sex," he said, "the only society that I'm dying for at the present moment is that of the old family bar-keep."
Parky, the gambler, was badly shot through the arm; Bone, the bar-keep, had a long, straight track through his hair, cleaned by a ball of lead. And this was deemed enough of a story when the ten half-frozen men had secured the claim to Jim and his that New-Year's morning. But the camp regretted on the whole that, instead of being shelved at his house, the gambler had not been slain.
The three men waited near the house for half an hour more, but in vain. It was then within an hour of midnight. Slowly, at last, they turned away, but had gone no more than half a dozen rods when they met the bar-keep, Doc Dennihan, Lufkins the teamster, and four other men of the camp, who were coming to see if Jim had yet returned.
I'd have to be bar-keep for a living, I suppose. Think I'd make a good bar-keep?" she said, getting up and stretching her arms above her head. All her full lissom figure was revealed to advantage by the attitude, and the firelight fell softly on the gay, bewitching face, slanted over to one shoulder as she put the question. "I do that," replied Annie, with emphasis.
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