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"Oh, well, if a man does take a drink now and then " he discounted. "But many drinks, and frequently, are quite different," she reproved. "We'll not fuss about it." "Far from it," she agreed. "I didn't come down to open old matters, although I suppose you thought that was my intention when you dodged me and stuck so close to that tin-horn doctor up at Meander."
So far as I can make out the whole of mankind that dwells under the British flag is more or less mad about political success, Parliament and getting in. They say in New Zealand that the government can make a conservative of any radical, if he threatens to become dangerous, by giving him some tin-horn honor or a place in the upper chamber.
They was plumb elated at their winnin' up at Fort Lewis, and the gamblin' fever was on 'em strong, so right after supper they invited us to join 'em in a game of Mexican monte. I let Mike do the card-playin' for our side, because he's got a pass which is the despair of many a "tin-horn."
Dupont and her husband came into the parlor " "Her husband? Good Lord, I thought her husband was dead." "He is n't. He 's a tin-horn gambler, known in the saloons as 'Reb, a big duffer, wearing a black beard." "All right, go on; I don't know him." "Well, I stepped into the room to keep the two apart, leaving the girl alone outside.
It makes me warm to look at you." "Stop this one, ye tin-horn!" snarled the stranger. "Certainly," agreed Tom, blocking the blow. "However, I wish you wouldn't be so strenuous. One of us may get hurt." This last escaped Reade as he blocked the blow, and again displayed a neat little bit of footwork. "Let's see you stop this one!" taunted the bully. "Certainly," agreed Tom, and did so.
Their candidate, MacDougall, had come to the state as a "tin-horn gambler," yet now he was going around making speeches in churches, and talking about the moral sentiment of the community. "And him with a district chairman keeping three families in Pedro!" declared Si Adams. "Well," ventured Hal, "if what I hear is true, the Republican chairman isn't a plaster saint.
In a year the sunburn left him and he grew white and thin. He went to Kansas City for a season, and became known among gamblers as far west as Denver; but he was only a tin-horn gambler in the big cities, while in our town he was at the head of his profession, so he came back and opened a room of his own.
Seth received us with rather distant courtesy at first, but unbent when he found out who we were, remarking, "You see, by your looks I thought you were some kind of a tin-horn gambling outfit, and that I might have to keep an eye on you!"
Except for an occasional slight smacking sound, it did not materially interfere with speech. "There's Poppa now," she said at last. "Say, Poppa, you two sit in the back, will you? Sheila and I are having a fine time. But, Poppa, you old tin-horn, what did you mean by saying in your wire that she was a husky girl? Why, she's got the build of a sagebrush mosquito! Look-a-here, Sheila."
He thought he knew where he could get word of White-Eye's whereabouts, stopped at a cigar-stand and telephoned for his cab and his regular driver. In a few minutes the cab was at the corner. He mentioned a street number to the driver, who nodded knowingly. Pony Baxter's place where the game ran big. No place for a tin-horn. Only the real ones played at Pony's.
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