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X. on it, and I says to them all, I says, 'I'd like to 'ave witnesses', I says, 'to this 'ere thing. Do all you gents agree that if anyone not in the 'ouse-party and 'oo's name ain't on one of the other tickets marries 'er lidyship, I get the pool? I says.
Now, some of these scientific gents as has got too wise to believe in the old-fashioned Bible and its plain meaning, what sort of directions would they give us through this world, so that we might do our duty in it, and get happily through it, and reach the better land? It would be much with poor sinners as it was with me.
Our nearest physician is sixty miles away, so you will have the field to yourself. You should prosper. Do you come from the East?" She looked him in the eyes. "St. Louis." "Take your pardners for the waltz, gents!"
It was an unusually hot day, and the thought of getting into the cool water of the old swimming hole appealed strongly to the youth. "Suits me," returned his brother. "We haven't had a swim down there since last year." "You young gents want to be careful about that there swimmin' hole," put in Jack Ness, who had heard the talk. "Why, what's the matter now, Jack?"
Then they's Punch-the-Breeze Thompson, Honey Hoke, and Peaches Austin. They's a few more, but they ain't the kind to take the lead in anything. They always follow. But Coffin, Thompson, Hoke, and Austin are the gents to keep yore eye peeled for. I ain't talking about 'em, y' understand. I ain't got a word to say against 'em, not a word.
"Evenin', ladies and gents," remarked Barker, affably, as he passed in through the gangway, and gazed about him inquisitively. "Fine weather, ain't it, after the shindy that `rude Boreas' kicked up two days ago?" "Allow me," interposed Sir Reginald, who had closely followed the castaway in on deck.
Leary, in spite of the fact disclosed by the Governor at Walker's, that she had conducted a fence in Chicago and was prone to view precious stones with a covetous eye, bore all the marks of respectability. She entered the dining-room briskly, her motherly face heated from the range, and placed a large platter of fried chicken on the table. "Jes' help yerselves, gents.
Disapproval was marked, punishment was condign; the lookout leisurely descended from his eyrie and floored the offender with a blow from his fist. When the resulting disturbance had quieted down the defender of decorum announced with inflexible firmness, but with a total lack of heat: "Gents, this is a sort of gospel game, and it's got a certain tone which we're going to maintain.
It served just as well as a new lecture for every occasion, for the memory of suckers is even shorter than their judgment. Gents were invited to step up and weigh the honesty of those dice, and gaze on the folly of an old one-eyed feller who had no more sense than to take such long chances. If anybody doubted that he took long chances, let that man step up and put down his money.
Gents is courteously requested not to speak all in a crowd." "Shet that blanky door," said the mummy cabman, sourly. "And 'op it," added his late opponent. "We don't want none of your sort 'ere." "Den you ain't my long-lost brudders after all," said the newcomer, regretfully. "I t'ought youse didn't look handsome enough for dat. Good-night to youse, gents."
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