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"I am sorry for that," he said, mildly. "I wanted to put those men through the third degree! We should have held them up and put on the handcuffs." "You didn't say so!" observed Frank sheepishly. "No use to talk about it now," Ned declared. "Perhaps Jimmie knows what we expected to learn from them." "All I know is that the bums got me at the cave and tied me up," Jimmie said.
Then he sat on the lid of the scuttle, poised his monkey wrench on high over the scuttle, and awaited developments, the while he tossed an order over his shoulder to Sam Daniels: "Bring me the bum!" "Which one?" Mr. Daniels queried. "The German bum, av coorse," Terence retorted waspishly. "But all these bums are Germans " "Not that kind av a bum!" howled Terence. "I mean the bum in the boat."
Just made it up: Glittering summery meadowy noise Of beetles and bums and respectable boys. Hear that? Whimzh whimsy. I made that up. I don't know what it means! Beginning good verse. Chile's Garden Verses. And whadi write? Tripe! Cheer-up poems. All tripe! Could have written Too late!" He darted on with an alarming plunge, seeming always to pitch forward yet never quite falling.
This species announced on blackboards and in the public prints that he would preach to "Men Only," or "Women Only," and his subjects were "Girls, Nice and Naughty," "Baldheads, Billboards and Bullheads," "Should Women Propose?" "Love, Courtship and Marriage," "Lums, Tums and Bums," "The Eight Johns," "The Late Mrs. Potiphar," or some other subject savoring of the salacious.
Already the shanty is packed, and judging from the thundering screeches and clapping of hands, the entertainment is such as suits the depraved tastes of the ruffianly "bums" who have paid their "four bits," and gone in. But look! Madly out of Deadwood gulch, the abode of thousands of lurking shadows, dashes a horseman.
By eleven o'clock the whole city was in a state of riot and men bruised and bleeding were loaded into wagons and hurried away until the jails were filled with criminals, bums, deputies and strikers. The police courts were constantly grinding out justice, or decisions intended to take the place of justice.
I get after the bums and they say, 'Giotto no good; we will kill him. Then I get broke again. Go to West Virginia and work in the coal-mine break my leg. And that was the baddest place in the world." "The mine?" "And the town. Laborers Italian, nigger; saloons and politics Jews; bosses all Irish nothing but the saloons and the women to spenda the money.
The whole affair was pretty well hushed up, but it produced bad feeling between the Special Order Squadrons and the spacemen. "Trigger-happy space bums," the spacemen called them, and much worse, besides. The men of the Special Order Squadrons, searching for a handy nickname, had called themselves Planeteers, because most of their work was on the planets. As Maj.
"Well," exclaimed the sergeant as the boys entered, "if ever I saw two hard looking bums you two are it. 'Tis a wonder one of my men didn't run yez in." "We were sort of afraid of that," laughed Bob. "No one bothered us though." "Where's Heinrich?" inquired Hugh. "In the next room," said Mr. Cook. "Where's Lena?" "We lost her." "What do you mean?" Bob told his father what they had done.
Then all day he was to pace the streets with hundreds and thousands of other homeless wretches inquiring at stores, warehouses, and factories for a chance; and at night he was to crawl into some doorway or underneath a truck, and hide there until midnight, when he might get into one of the station houses, and spread a newspaper upon the floor, and lie down in the midst of a throng of "bums" and beggars, reeking with alcohol and tobacco, and filthy with vermin and disease.
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