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Don't let your ears be scruffed by mischief-makers, boys. Let's have our city come through with a clean name! I'm going to do my part as best I can. But you've all got to do yours understand that!" He smacked his fist down into his palm. "Do you bromise me dot Karl Trimbach gets dot seat?" boomed Mr. Weisner. "The same question goes as to th' Hon'rable Danyel O'Donnell," said Adherent Mulcahy.
"Hadn't you just as soon tear pickets off'n the fence there, or something like that?" wistfully queried Avery. "This is all I've got left, and I haven't any money, and I haven't had very much courage to do anything since she took that sixteen hundred dollars away from me." He scruffed his raspy palms on his upcocked knees.
"My dear sir," smiled the decayed gentleman, "it is a delicate matter not to be canvassed in public; but I can assure you that I shall not remain with Miss Pike as a menial or a bond-servant. Oh no! Not by any means, sir!" Ward scruffed his hand over his forehead, blinking with puzzled astonishment. "I'll thank you for the directions," said the stranger.
Follow me when duty calls follow me when pleasure speaks, and you'll always find me with the goods." He waved his hand at the open door of the van. Two ladies had been awaiting the arrival of the Ancients in the square, squired by a stout man in blue, who scruffed his fingers through his stubbly gray beard from time to time with no great ease of manner. Most of the spectators knew him.
The mutter of his denunciation could be heard above the yells of the fakers and the squawk of penny whistles. Occasionally he scruffed his forearm over his head as though fondling something that hurt him. To start those eleven rank brutes on that cow-lane of a track would have tested the resources and language of a professional.
Sometimes four calves were being scruffed at the same time, and the work went on very quickly. Blacks always work well in a yard. Not only is there the personal and sometimes risky struggle with the animals, which appeals strongly to their savage minds, but the emulation amongst themselves, each being very anxious to do better than his fellows.
Most of them were about a year old and could be scruffed, which means that one or another of the black-fellows would watch his opportunity, catch the calf, and throw it on the ground with a dexterous twist. As soon as it was down, he would hook one of its front legs behind its horns and hold it there till the brand was applied.
"The People" have to be poked into the fighting mood their ears have to be scruffed they need speakers, literature, marshals, inciters hurrah of partisanship. It was the off year for the national campaign. No money came into the State from the Big Fellows. The State Committee was looked to by the county and town committees to start the ball rolling and guarantee the purse to push it.
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