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Basche was at dinner with his lady and the gentlemen; so he sent for the catchpole, made him sit by him, and the bums by the women, and made them eat till their bellies cracked with their breeches unbuttoned. The fruit being served, the catchpole arose from table, and before the bums cited Basche.

I was half-way to San Antonio when I fell in with as jolly a bunch of bums as I ever hope to see in this world ... just outside a little town, in the "jungles."

One tall and lithe, led the way up the embankment, followed by the other, who was short and stocky. "Bums," whispered one of the boys at the top of the embankment. The tramps stood still when they reached the top. Even in the half-light it could be seen that their clothes were ill-fitting, frayed, and torn. They wore cast-off hats.

Why, there we was already ten strong, with more to come, because I drafted three gobs at the Bullyvard Raspail. They wasn't quite sober, but I kep' my eye on 'em and they behaved fine. I sez to them: 'You drunken bums, you! You join this funeral or I'll see you're put in the brig to-night. But to make sure they'd not disgrace Mr.

I kin always git treated right here." "Don't thank me, it's business. Get out and look like a man when I see you next. I don't want any bums working for me." The fat man jotted down a memorandum of his outlay on the little machine. Then he admitted the next caller. "Ah, it's you, Jimmie. Well, what have you to say? You've been working pretty well, so Shepard tells me.

"No, no, Dick; there's no danger. Besides, there's Chamu." "The bums could make short work of that parasite." "I'm safe enough. Tom Tripe usually looks in at least once a day when you're gone." "Tom's a good fellow, but once a day . A hundred things might happen. I'd better speak to Tom Tripe about those three bums he'll shift them!" "Don't, Dick! I tell you they keep others away.

Thee and I are a couple of bums and we know it, but you can forgive us, can't you? We ought to be ashamed of ourselves, all of us, and that's the truth. We've been quarreling, too, haven't spoken for a week. Ain't that so, sport? But it's all right now, eh?" There were tears in my eyes, too. One couldn't resist him. He had the power of achieving the tenderest results in the simplest ways.

Yer one o' that gang o' bums that come here last night, an' now you got the gall to come back beggin' for food, eh? I'll lam ye!" and he raised the gun to his shoulder. The Oskaloosa Kid quailed but he held his ground. "I wasn't here last night," he cried, "and I'm not begging for food I want to buy some.

"Hev a drink everybody no, everybody come up hyar, I say!" And the graceless saloon bums dropped their cards and came trooping up together. A few of the more self-respecting men slipped quietly out into the card rooms; but the studious stranger, disdaining such puny subterfuges, remained in his place, as impassive and detached as ever.

Together they would fall upon it like two schoolboys. But what Lane was most grateful for was just Blair's presence. It was distressing then, after these meetings had extended over a period of two weeks, to be confronted one afternoon by a new station agent who called Blair and Lane bums and ordered them out of the place. Blair raised his crutch to knock the man down.