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Updated: May 11, 2025
They kicked up a shindy with some bar-loungers, an' the fur flew. When the police came, old Peg-leg, the skipper, you know, was the only man left in the place, havin' unshipped his crutch for the fight. 'What have you bin a-doin' of here throwin' grapes about? asked the peeler, gazin' at the floor, suspicious-like. 'Grapes, said Dot-an'-carry-one, 'them ain't grapes.
A few yards in front of us two beaked Afro-Hebrews were arguing as to what the hero's leavings had been. 'What did he die worth? was to one of them a subject of earnest enquiry. A few yards in front of them again, as we passed, some bar-loungers foregathered. 'He stood no nonsense about niggers, one was saying as we went by him. Edgar nudged me.
The notable and notorious men there, the bar-loungers whose life gave them a look of almost pathetic imbecility, the women of fashion and the too fashionable ladies of the chorus had, at least temporarily, accepted some common denominator. They rubbed shoulders in the stuffy, dingy, green-room with an air of complete good-fellowship.
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