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Three other men found themselves in the same predicament, two being Bluffers and one a Plotter. After a hasty consultation, one of the Bluffers telephoned for his automobile and invited the others to make the trip to town with him.
All of these bear are bold and genuine bluffers. they never snoop. they depend upon their size and name to carry them through. seldom do hunters kill them untill they have emptied tha last load. I then went back to my horse or; to where I left him; but he had given me the French leave I had tied him; as Cow-punchers say "To the ground."
Still, if this rise continued or was not reversed the Fanning-Smiths would be ruined by whom? "Some of those Chicago bluffers," he finally decided. "I must throw a scare into I them." He could have withdrawn from the battle then with a pitiful remnant of the Fanning-Smiths and their associates that is, he thought he could, for he did not dream of the existence of the "corner."
The captain's laugh was the loudest of all. "Six shots the señor took," he guffawed, "and missed with them all! Ah, didn't I tell you that the Americans are bluffers, like their game of poker? This one carries two guns and cannot use even one!" Kid Wolf smiled quietly. A faint look of amusement was in his eyes. "Maybe," he drawled, "yo'-all had bettah look at that hat."
On Monday one could at least scour the town in search of something to eat; and many a coolie shop was invaded by bluffers, dressed in the "little brief authority" of a Town Guard's hat, who endeavoured to bully the coolie into unearthing hidden stores. But to no avail; the coolie was not to be frightened, nor even excited, by hat or pugaree.
"They are calling it all kinds of names, 'the graveside of right', 'the Peace of violence', 'the shackles of slaves' and all that kind of rot. They swear they will never sign it. But then you have to take that talk for what it is worth. The Germans are the greatest bluffers and the quickest quitters in the world. There is what you Americans call the 'yellow streak' all through the nation.
"What does their 'they say' amount to? Nothing at all. They said they'd never stop fighting, and they lay down like dogs. They said we'd never step on the sacred soil of Germany, but there wasn't a peep out of them when we marched over the Rhine. They're the biggest bluffers and the quickest quitters in the world." "When are we going back to Coblenz?" asked Tom.
What do I know about tea? All of us who play are bluffers, more or less, and we are ever so polite in pretending not to know the others are bluffing.... There's lots of kinds of tea. In the New York Chinatown I saw once Do you know Chinatown? Being a New-Yorker, I don't suppose you do." "Oh yes. And Italiantown. I used to wander round there."
Do you know where your two friends are the two who accompanied you here?" "I presume that they are quite capable of taking care of themselves," Ned replied. "They are on the road to a dungeon in Peking." "From first to last," Ned said, "from my first connection with this case up to this hour, I have come upon only bluffers and liars. You seem to be making good in both lines."
There's plenty of grass on the other side of the mountains and your sheep are welcome to it. Why don't you make use of it?" "Why should I? The sheep have a right to be where they are and there they'll stay until I get ready to move 'em. You cattlemen think you own this country, but when it comes to the show down, you're a bunch of bluffers.
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