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Updated: May 23, 2025
I'd rather you'd buck-and-gag me. But you are to blame for it yourself. You ought to have more sense than lay it into a Lieutenant-Colonel and Provost-Marshal that way. But you did give it to him fine, the old blow-hard and whisky-sucker. He's no more fit for shoulderstraps than a hog is for a paper-collar.
"W'y, you doggone thief, you've robbed me of two thousand dollars. But that's all right," he added; "it shows my dream was true. And now your tin bank is broke!" He turned to the crowd, which looked on in stunned silence, and tucked in his money-stuffed shirt. "So I'm a blow-hard, am I?" he inquired sarcastically, and no one said a word.
Bassett had been brought up in a somewhat similar home; his father was a promoter of mines and oil wells and had come naturally by a bombastic manner which he had in turn passed on to his only son. The elder Bassett was known behind his back as Blow-Hard Bassett, and it was said of him that he owned more diamond stick-pins than any other man alive.
With the exception of his father who had infinite faith in the shrewdness and ability of his son, the men he wanted to impress were only amused. One day Thomas Butterworth went into the bank and stood talking the matter over with John Clark. "The young squirt was always a Smart-Aleck and a blow-hard," he said. "What's he up to now? What's he nudging and whispering about?"
Perris had stepped a little too close and the piebald thrust out at him with reaching teeth and striking forefoot. The man leaped back, still laughing. "Cool, all right," said Corson judicially. "And maybe he ain't just a blow-hard, after all. There they go!" It happened very quickly. Perris had shaken hands with Arizona, then turned and leaped into the saddle. The ropes were loosed.
"No, of course you don't know!" replied Eells with a smile, "and everybody knows you don't know; but your remarks are actionable and if you don't shut up and go away I'll instruct my attorney to sue you." "Oh, 'shut up, eh?" repeated Wunpost after the crowd had had its laugh; "you think I'm a blow-hard, eh? You all do, don't you? Well, I'll tell you what I'll do."
And yet it is a pleasing change, and I shall be glad when we as a republic have passed the blow-hard period, laid aside the ear-splitting steam whistle, settled down to good, permanent institutions, and taken on the restful, sootheful, Boston air which comes with time and the quiet self-congratulation that one is born in a Bible land and with Gospel privileges, and where the right to worship in a strictly high-church manner is open to all.
She was exceedingly pretty, this girl whom Hugh had kissed. "I'm awfully sorry, Grace; but you know how it is when a fellow's in a close, hard game especially with a blow-hard like Tom Ditton." "If I forgive you again, I'm afraid you'll prove a begging husband." "Never! Deliver me from a begging husband.
"They all did!" he beamed, "but I've showed 'em, by grab they ain't calling me a blow-hard now. These Blackwater stiffs that wanted to run me out of town are coming around now to borrow five. They took up with a crook, just because he boosted for their town, and now they're left holding the sack. But if they'd listened to me they wouldn't be left flat, because I told 'em I was after his hide.
He nodded and leered knowingly at the gaping crowd as Eells began to temporize and hedge. "I'm a blow-hard, am I?" he shouted uproariously; "my remarks are actionable, are they? Well, if I should go into court and tell half of what I know there'd be two men on their way to the Pen!" He pointed two fingers at Eells and Phillip Lapham and the banker saw a change in the crowd.
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