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"No, I haven't. You think you respect me you always hand out some spiel about my being so 'useful. But you never think of me as having ambitions, just as much as you have " "Perhaps not. I think of you as being perfectly satisfied." "Well, I'm not, not by a long shot!
"I don't know," says I; "but I can do an East Side spiel." "Good!" says she. "I know how to do that too. Come on." "In a minute," says I. "Just hold on until I borrow the young gentleman's evenin' coat." "Wha what's that?" snorts Bobby. "You can be usin' mine for a smokin' jacket," says I. "Peel it off now, and let the fancy vest come along too!" "I I won't do it!" says Bobbie.
You've robbed me right and left from the time you cleared dock in Seattle, and by the hinges of hell I won't stand it any more! I'll break this company as sure as my name's Thad Ferguson! D'ye hear my spiel? I'm Thad Ferguson, and you can't come and see me any too quick for your health! D'ye hear?" "Pirate; eh?" the boatman soliloquized. "Who? Me?" Mr.
"There was a fellow I knew in New York who used to sell type-writers, and he had a thing to say he used to reel off when any one looked like a customer. He used to call it his 'spiel." Palliser's quick glance at him asked questions, and his stiffness did not relax itself. "Is this New York chaff?" he inquired coldly. "No," Tembarom said. "You're not doing it for ten per. He was"
"Don't any more of you try it on," he warned, as the thwarted profferer of the counterfeit sidled away, and there was, in his tone, a dominant ferocity. Presently the line of purchasers thinned out. The Vitalizing Mixture had exhausted its market. But only part of the crowd had contributed to the levy. Mainly it was the men, whom the "spiel" had lured. Now for the women.
"Dat's anudder member of de gang," the bell-boy replied. "Dat's Mr. Rabiner. He quit a big loser about one o'clock dis mornin'." Abe handed his informant a dime. "Take me to his room," he said. The bell-boy led the way to the seventh floor and conducted Abe to the door of Rabiner's room. "Dat's a pretty said spiel dat guy is tearin' off," he commented. "It makes me tink of a dago funeral."
It was the first time he had ever been behind the scenes at this sort of game. "But that was a good talk, just the same," he interrupted a cynical bit of bragging. "Say, wasn't it!" cried Porter. "I got that out of a shoutin' evangelist. The minute I heard it I saw where it was hot stuff for my spiel. I'm that way: I got that kind of good eye.
"Got no opinions you want to hand out free, son?" "Think I'll keep them bottled." "Say 'sir, Sport!" "Yes, sir," answered Farnum, his quiet eyes steady and unafraid. "When I give an order you expect to jump?" "Jump isn't the word." "Sir!" thundered Green, and "Sir" the newspaper man corrected himself. "Got no story to spiel about being shanghaied, son?" "Would it do any good, sir?"
The sound of voices came from the red windows behind them. Then the soloist began to sing again. His second ballad was the Erl King: Du liebes Kind, komm' geh' mit mir! Gar schoene Spiele spiel' ich mit dir. "Any news of John Storm?" said Drake. "Not that I know of." "I wonder if you would like him to come out again now?" "I wonder!"
That 'spiel' of mine is the best high-pitch in the business." "High-pitch?" "High-pitching," explained the quack, "is our term for the talk, the patter. You can sell sugar pills to raise the dead with a good-enough high-pitch. I've done it myself pretty near. With a voice like mine, it's a shame to drop it. But I'm getting tired. And Boyee ought to have schooling.
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