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'New chum? queried the barman, after serving him. 'I suppose I am, replied Jim. 'Look here, would you mind telling me what in the devil's name a new chum is? 'A new chum is a man fresh from home. 'From England? 'Scotland, Ireland, anywhere else, if he's green and inexperienced. Miners from the Californian fields don't rank as new chums. 'And how am I known as a new chum?
"Have a cigar?" and they passed out. When they returned Steelman went straight to the room he occupied with Smith. "How much stuff have we got, Smith?" "Nine pounds seventeen and threepence." Steelman gave an exclamation of disapproval with that state of financial affairs. He thought a second. "I know the barman here, and I think he knows me. I'll chew his lug for a bob or may be a quid."
He held the door open for her and waited till she passed in. Then he followed and closed the door. "Just excuse me one minute," he said as he remained standing by the door which he suddenly flung open again. "I thought so," he cried, as he saw Bessie in the passage. "You clear out of it. What I've got to say to Mrs. Eustace don't concern you, nor Jim the barman. Do you hear?"
His soft hat, crushed in, was perched to one side; a big horseshoe pin and a scarlet cravat reposed on a limited space of pink shirt-front. There was about one chance in ten of guessing his calling. He looked equally like a successful sporting man, an ex-prize fighter, a barman, a racing tout, a book-maker, or a public house thrower-out.
"I'm surprised at you," ses old Burge, who'd been looking on with 'is mouth wide open, and pinching 'imself to see whether 'e wasn't dreaming. "I don't go for your orders," ses Charlie, getting up. "Wot d'ye mean by locking that door?" "Wot!" roars Dixon. "Hang it! I mustn't lock a door without asking my barman now. Pack up and be off, you swab, afore I start on you."
Before the war Percy had been, amongst other things, an actor of indifferent calibre; he had helped a barman in Canada, carried a chain for a railroad survey, done a bit of rubber-planting, and written poetry. He was, in fact, a man of many parts, and cultivated a frivolous demeanour and an eyeglass.
The barman grinned. 'That'll tell on you all over the place, he said, indicating the bag. 'That's a true new chum's bundle. No Australian would expatriate himself by carrying his goods in that fashion. He makes them up in a roll, straps them, and carries them in a sling on his back. His bundle is then a swag. The swag is the Australian's national badge.
Not within the memory of the oldest inhabitant had any funeral been so largely or honourably attended. Truly it spelled excellent advertisement and this although two persons, calculated mightily to have heightened interest and brought up dramatic and emotional values, were absent from the scene. For Lesbia Faircloth, giving her barman and two women servants a holiday, closed the inn at noon.
"Wot was it?" demanded the other. "Nothing much," replied Charles, standing with his hand on the door-knob, "but I wouldn't believe it of you; I said I couldn't." "Wot was it?" insisted Mr. Kybird. "Why, they said you once gave a man a fair price for a pair of trousers," said the barman, indignantly. He closed the door behind him softly, and Mr.
He showed as something under six feet tall, long in the limb and moving handily, with eyes of an angry blue in a face tanned russet by wind and sun. In the saloon he laughed down Jim's instances of Tom Mowbray's treachery and cunning, lounging with an elbow on the bar, careless and confident under the skeptical eyes of the white-jacketed barman.
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