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Little money was raised in that crowd, since there was little to give, and, addressing the two distinguished strangers, Sorden, the crier, exclaimed: "What, gentlemen, will you let the Hunn brothers and Tommy Garrett and the Motts give three hundred dollars for a woman they never saw, and we, who see her always doing good, give nothing?" "Pity! pity!" sobbed the blind man.
They teach us that all other professions must take care of themselves; that God allows anybody to be a doctor, a lawyer, statesman, soldier, or artist; that the Motts and Coopers the Mansfields and Marshalls the Wilberforces and Sumners the Angelos and Raphaels were never honored by a "call." These chose their professions and won their laurels without the assistance of the Lord.
Jud Shelby, while admitting the excellence of the steer, resolutely confined himself to open admiration of the landscape, to the end that the entire picture receive its meed of praise. "That piece of range," he declared, "is a dead ringer for Dead Hoss Valley. Same grass, same lay of land, same old Whipperwill Creek skallyhootin' in and out of them motts of timber.
The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine. McGuire sat, collapsed into his corner of the seat, receiving with acid suspicion the conversation of the cattleman. What was the "game" of this big "geezer" who was carrying him off?
Killigrew, as a merchant's son, however well off, could not penetrate to the most sacred precincts Motts was more or less barred to him; but on the other hand he was in the midst of what was always called the "Bohemian" set in which were many artists, both the big and the little fry. One could "see life" there too, though, as usual, most of the artists were very respectable people.
They were rolling southward on the International . The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.
We are going out up on the boulevard." "Yes, yes!" cried the dense crowd at the windows, "a galop to the Barriere Saint Jacques!" "It will soon be time for them to shorten the two motts!" "The executioner throws a double ace; it is low!" "Accompanied by the French horn!" "We will dance the cotillon by the guillotine!" "Go ahead of the women without any head!" cried Tortillard.
And how excellent is the saying of the poet, 'He whom the randy motts entrap * Shall never see deliverance! Women aye deal in treachery * To far and near o'er earth's expanse With fingers dipt in Henna-blood * And locks in braids that mad the glance; And eyelids painted o'er with Kohl * They gar us drink of dire mischance. And how excellently saith another,
In the turbulent throng was a young man who, while he was no friend of the colored man, could not see Lucretia Mott harmed. With skilful ruse, as they neared the house, he rushed up another street, shouting at the top of his voice, "On to Motts!" and the wild crowd blindly followed, wreaking their vengeance in another quarter. A year later, in Delaware, where Mrs.
From the comparative respectability of Cremorne and Motts, and the frankly shady precincts of the "Pie" and the "Blue Posts" down to places considerably worse, London was an enormous gamut of opportunities for "seeing life."
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