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Updated: May 23, 2025
Then he suddenly showed the jack of hearts again. "Do you want to try the other trick again?" the man front Silver Bend asked. "You no givee poor Chinee um showee to play um tlick, so be," answered Hop. "What kind of a show do you want? There you are with the jack of hearts in your hand. Now I'll bet you that you can't get it into my bootleg again!"
The Germans always showed heat when they found a big service clasp-knife hung about a captured Englishman's neck on a lanyard, calling it a barbarous weapon because of the length of the blade and long sharp brad-awl which folded into a slot at the back of the handle; but an equally grim bit of cutlery in a Bavarian's bootleg seemed to them an entirely proper tool for a soldier to be carrying.
Edipon asked, forgetting the knife for the moment, drawn on by the joys of a technical discussion. "That's what I thought. I can see where your bootleg joyjuice is going to take a big jump in quality, if you have anyone here who can do some simple glassblowing. Though it might be easier to rig up a coiled bi-metallic strip.
A fair moon and clusters of modest stars furnished some light. The general was gazing toward Stafford Heights, tapping his bootleg at times with a little switch. But he turned his gaze upon the two boys as they came forward and saluted respectfully. "Well, lads," he said in a voice of uncommon gentleness, "what have you seen?"
Thousands of rough, hard-drinking, hard-fighting men thronged the mushroom town, and it resembled a mining town of California's early days. Miners and cattlemen, too, made the town headquarters, and there were frequent fights and an occasional shooting scrape. The cost of everything was high. Money flowed freely, as did bootleg jackass brandy.
These pseudonyms were picturesque and descriptive, though at the time Hollis was in a state of pained incomprehension concerning them. Later he was informed that Ace had been so named on account of having once been caught slipping a playing card of that character into his bootleg during a game of poker. Incidentally Hollis was told gun-play had resulted.
Noting that the man was flushed, Gray shrugged and allowed the incident to pass. This bootleg whisky from across Red River was of a quality to scatter a person's eyesight. For some time the game continued before Gray won again, and the dealer deposited thirty-five silver dollars beside his bet. Again that sun-browned hand reached forth, but this time Gray seized it by the wrist.
"Tricked, by thunder!" exclaimed Roche, as Hop smiled and put the money in his pocket. "Mighty clever, I should say," ventured Sedgwick. "Cap, yer shouldn't have bet." "I couldn't help it," was the reply. "But I know how it was done. He put the card in my bootleg when he was looking around under the table." "No; that couldn't be," declared the saloon keeper.
He held two articles of belief which no man might dispute without getting sight of the knife in his bootleg or the revolver on his hip. One was that Texas was the biggest and best State in the Union; and the other, that the cow business was no longer fit for a gentleman to follow.
There at the corner of the shed stood a man in varnished top boots, with spurs in the heels great, cruel looking spurs velveteen breeches, a short, dirty white flannel coat, and a hard hat something between a stovepipe and a derby. Agnes realized that it was some kind of a riding costume that he wore, and he lashed his bootleg with his riding whip as he talked.
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