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"Shure, the b'ys are as pleased and kindly this mornin' as can be. It's a fight like that makes them yieldin' an' friendly. Nothin' but a little head-punchin' could make them in a sweeter mood, an' we'd a given them that if little Caggs had had any sense in him." "You mean Gallagher and Blunkers and the rest of them?" "Av course. That little time last night didn't mean much.
The policeman looked about a moment. "It's politics, sir, and he's had orders." "From whom?" "That's more than we know. There was a row last spring in the primary, and we've had orders since then to lay for him." Peter stood and thought for a moment. "What saloon-keeper round here has the biggest pull?" he asked. "It's all of them, mostly, but Blunkers is a big man." "Thank you," said Peter.
"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.
Peter named one of the firemen, Dooley, and Blunkers, tellers, who, after a ballot, announced that Dennis had carried his nominations, Peter heading the list with two hundred and twelve votes, and the others getting one hundred and seventy-two, and one hundred and fifty-eight respectively. The "snake" got but fifty-seven votes.
When the primary met, the proceedings, if exciting, were never for a moment doubtful, for Gallagher, Peter, Moriarty and Blunkers had been able to agree on both programme and candidates. An attempt had been made to "turn down" Schlurger, but Peter had opposed it, and had carried his point, to the great gratitude of the silent, honest German.
What was more important to him, this had all been done without exciting hard feelings. "Stirling's a reasonable fellow," Gallagher told Costell, not knowing how much Peter was seeing of the big leader, "and he isn't dead set on carrying his own schemes. We've never had so little talk of mutiny and sulking as we have had this paring. Moriarty and Blunkers swear by him. It's queer.
So Peter told about Dennis and Blunkers, and the "b'ys" in the saloons; about Green and his fellow delegates; about the Honorable Mr., Mrs., and Miss Gallagher, and their dinner companions. He did not satirize in the least.
Yer too good for us." Peter looked at him. "Blunkers," he said warmly, "no man is too good not to tell the truth to any one whom he thinks it will help." "Shake," said Blunkers. Then he turned to the men at the tables. "Step up, boys," he called. "I sets it up dis time to drink der health of der feller dat don't drink." The boys drank
"Yes," Peter said deliberately, "if some night you'll let me bring Blunkers up to watch one of your formal dinners. He would enjoy the sight, I'm sure." Leonore cocked her little nose up in the air, and laughed merrily. "Oh, but that's very different," said Watts. "It's just as different as the two men with the toothache," said Peter.
But now we get to another rung of the ladder. Here we have Dennis, and such men as Blunkers, Denton, Kennedy, Schlurger and others. They not merely have their own set of followers, but they have more or less power to dominate the little bosses of whom I have already spoken. Take Dennis for instance.
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