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Esther passed the Ghetto school, within which free services were going on even in the playground, poor Russians and Poles, fanatically observant, fore-gathering with lax fishmongers and welshers; and without which hulking young men hovered uneasily, feeling too out of tune with religion to go in, too conscious of the terrors of the day to stay entirely away.
In fact, this is his Sanctuary and he peddles under the eye of the police. "Holy Land?" Ha, ha! "All the patriarchs out of the Bible here?" Oh, the vociferous gentlemen with patriarchal names in velveteen coats under the banners and canvas sign-boards Moses, Aaron, and so forth? They were the "bookies," otherwise bookmakers, generally Jews and sometimes Welshers.
There was a story of a nation of Welshers, that liv'd hereaway in the prairies, and how they came into the land afore the uneasy minded man, who first let in the Christians to rob the heathens of their inheritance, had ever dreamt that the sun set on a country as big as that it rose from.
"It is the betting that brings the business; we shouldn't take five pounds a week was it not for the betting. What's the difference between betting on the course and betting in the bar? No one says nothing against it on the course; the police is there, and they goes after the welshers and persecutes them. Then the betting that's done at Tattersall's and the Albert Club, what is the difference?
"My dear Seraph," murmured Bertie languidly, "I've gone in to-day for exertion; a little more or less is nothing. Besides, welshers are slippery dogs, you know."
As the days passed and the "tumult and shouting" died, it gave a certain amount of satisfaction to find that amongst the jeerers and sneerers at the memorable Reed's Hall meeting, those who had battled most vigorously for the horizontal cut of twenty-five cents were those who afterward developed into the worst welshers and shavers in the entire history of the loss settlements of the San Francisco or any other conflagration.
Do you suppose those scoundrels care for the Church the Church, indeed! Wait until I see them any of them Erhaupt by choice, and I'll make them give up every franc you've lent them, or I'll horsewhip and expose them for the gang of welshers and thimble-riggers they are; or if they prefer their own methods, I'll call them out in rotation and shoot their arms and legs off."
"I suppose," said I, "there are few Welshmen such big fellows as yourself." "No, Measter," said the fellow, with a grin, "there are few Welshmen so big as I, or yourself either; they are small men mostly, Measter, them Welshers, very small men and yet the fellows can use their hands.
I'm back here now wit' my life in my hand, but I'd chance it twice over to get square wit' them welshers that have bawled me out!" "Why have you come to me?" asked Blount briefly. "Gawd knows; I took a chance again. I've heard your speeches, and says I, 'There's your wan chance, cully, and I'm here to grab f'r it. If you've been meanin' the half of what you've been sayin', Mr.
But when other chaps on the panel presented their excuses to the judge and managed to persuade him of the imperative needs of family or business, and slipped grinning discreetly out of the court room, he merely inaudibly called them welshers and pikers.
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