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Updated: May 10, 2025
But the men know I dressed for a reason, and came to the saloon for a reason. I wasn't putting on airs. I wasn't intruding my wealth on them." "Look here, chum, will you take me into Blunkers's place some night, and let me hear you powwow the 'b'ys? I should like to see how you do it."
I was in evening dress, newcastle, and crush hat even a bunch of lilies of the valley yet every man there was willing to shake hands and have me sit down and stay. Blunkers couldn't have been dressed so, because it didn't belong to him. For the same reason, you would have no business in Blunkers's place, because you don't belong there.
"If you, or Pell, or Ogden should go into Blunkers's place in my ward, this evening, dressed as you are, or better, you probably would be told to get out. I don't believe you could get a drink. And you would stand a chance of pretty rough usage. Last week I went right from a dinner to Blunkers's to say a word to him.
He stood in the street thinking a little. Then he walked a couple of blocks and went into Blunkers's great gin palace. "I want to see the proprietor," he said. "Dat's me," said a man who was reading a paper behind the bar. "Do you know Justice Gallagher?" "Do I? Well, I guess," said the man. "Will you do me the favor to go with me to his court, and get him to remit Dennis Moriarty's fine?"
Blunkers was so pleased with the end of the speech that he got Peter to write it out, and to this day the "thank you" part of the address, in Peter's neat handwriting, handsomely framed, is to be seen in Blunkers's saloon. Peter also did a little writing this summer.
But during this time, Peter noticed first a good deal of whispering among Blunkers's friends, and then an interview between Gallagher and Dennis. The latter was apparently not reconcilable, and shook his head in a way that meant war. Then there was more consultation between the opposition, and another confab with Dennis, with more headshakes on his part.
"Yer just talk what yer want. We'll listen." After Peter had thought it over for a day, he went to Blunkers's gin palace. "Look here," he said. "Would it be possible to hire one more barge, and take the children free? I'll pay for the boat, and for the extra food, if they won't be in the way." "I'm damned if yer do," shouted Blunkers.
Caggs, from a secure retreat behind Blunkers's right arm, declined to let the siren's song tempt him forth. Finally Peter's pounding brought a degree of quiet again. "Misther Chairman," said Dennis. "Mr. Moriarty," said Peter. "Misther Chairman. Oi'll not take the valuable time av this meetin' to speak av dirty, cowardly, black-hearted, treacherous snakes, wid souls blacker than the divil's own "
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