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Updated: June 16, 2025
Residence. Destination. Prof. D.G. Brown, N.Y. City. Lecture in Tyre. 'Beautiful evening, sir, said the clerk, who was also the landlord, but not also the bar-tender and the hostler. 'You are right, sir, said I; 'it is truly a lovely evening. I have rarely seen moonlight so beautiful.
"You'll find him in there," answered the bar-tender, crooking his thumb toward a room leading out of the saloon, containing a tumbled single-bed and a wooden settee, besides various masculine bijouterie in the shape of boots, old and new, clean and dirty; candle and cigar ends; dusty bits of paper on a stand, the chief ornament of which was a black-looking derringer; coats, vests, fishing-tackle; and cheap prints, adorning the walls in the wildest disregard of effect except, indeed, the effect aimed at were chaos.
I had no desire to be mixed up in a police affair, especially in the company of such scum as I was then among. I picked up my golf bag and swung my knapsack on to my back once more. Then I remembered about Donald. I could not leave him. I searched in corners and under the tables. He was nowhere in sight. "Is it the tinker?" asked the bar-tender excitedly. "Yes, yes!" "He's gone.
The proprietor, if he can, divides the stolen amount with the girl with the lover always. Many instances are known of half-intoxicated men leaving valuables with the bar-tender of some of these places, for supposed security, but when requested to be returned were met with a denial that the valuables were ever intrusted to him.
An army of charwomen, turned into the hotel, scrubbed it from top to bottom. A vacuum cleaner, the first seen in Mariposa, hissed and screamed in the corridors. Forty brass beds were imported from the city, not, of course, for the guests to sleep in, but to keep them out. A bar-tender with a starched coat and wicker sleeves was put behind the bar. The loafers were put out of business.
Oh, no, they'd never send a drink clean up to the fifteenth floor. Of course, in the old days, I could have put on my canvas slippers and walked down to the bar and had a drink and talked to the bar-tender. But of course they wouldn't have a bar in a place like this. I'd like to go down and see, but I don't know that I'd care to ask, anyway. No, I guess I'll just sit and wait.
And as to its being a monkey's head on a fish's tail, that's no concern. It would only make a better gull-trap." "And wait some two years before it arrived? Humph! If that's the only thing that will save me, I shall go to the dogs in spite of the " "Don't swear, Mr. Graves. It's a bad habit, though I am guilty of it myself," the bar-tender said, with vulgar familiarity.
The Spanish bar-tender who is never the "tough" his American counterpart strives to show himself but merely a cheery good-fellow drifted into our conversation, and when we found I had slept in his native village he would have it that we accept a round of Valdepenas. Which must have been potent, for it moved "Scotty" to unbutton an inner pocket and set up an entire bottle of amontillado.
I taught the child myself, and in the old days in Chicago I considered that there wasn't a bar-tender in the city that could hold a candle to me. When I had nothing better to do in the penitentiary I used to amuse myself by thinking out new cocktails, but when you come down to brass-tacks there's nothing to beat a dry Martini."
Now, you bar-tender, everybody drinks on us to the health and happiness of our respected niece Miss Barbara Worth." On the street a few minutes later Pat growled his disappointment. "The divil take a man wid no bowels." Ignoring his friend's complaint, Texas returned meditatively; "Do you think, Pat, that there might be anything in what that there gent said?
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