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Updated: June 8, 2025
'Anythin' at all, marm, we're nearly starvin', Anything to hel-l-lp the bummers on their wa-ay, We are three bums an' jolly good chums, An' we live like Royal Turks, An' with good luck we bum our chuck, An' it's a fool of a man wot works." Just as Sunny was about to begin the next verse Bill appeared in the doorway, and the vocalist was reduced to a pained silence by his harsh criticism.
"Looks to me like the original Gloom," he observed. "What's his grouch?" "Conscience." "He must have a bum one!" "He has a busy one. He expends a great amount of time and sorrow repenting of our sins." "Whose sins?" asked the other, opening wider his dull and weary eyes. "Ours. His neighbors. Everybody in Our Square."
You don't have to coddle yourself into working enough to earn a living by talking about temperament. "Why, these Interesting People You find 'em in London and New York and San Francisco just the same. They're convinced they're the wisest people on earth. There's a few artists and a bum novelist or two always, and some social workers.
"Murder of faith in a woman's heart," he said slowly. "Look at me! Do I look the sort who'd play your dirty game?" The young man stood over him. "Bannon," he called. The valet entered the room. "Take the clothes off this this bum!" snapped the host. "Give him his rags." He clenched his fists, but the dummy-chucker merely shrugged.
Abe seized his hat and dashed down the street to the telegraph office. "Gimme a blank," he said to the operator, who handed him a whole padful. For the next twenty minutes Abe scribbled and tore up by turns until he finally evolved a satisfactory missive. This he handed to the operator, who read it with a broad grin and passed it back at once. "Wot d'ye take me for?" he said. "A bum?
"That's quite enough of that, Tim," I said sharply, and was aware that he stared back at me, plainly perplexed by the change in my tone and manner. "You are an officer of the law; so am I, and it is about time we were working together." He managed to release a gruff laugh. "You you damn bum; hell, that's a good joke what'r yer givin' me now?"
Gibney hugged him and patted him on the back and told him he was a good fellow away down low, if the truth were only known; whereat Captain Scraggs commenced to sob aloud. McGuffey coughed and tears as big as marbles cascaded down the honest Gibney's rubicund countenance. "I ain't wuth your sympathy after the way I treated you," Captain Scraggs cried brokenly. "Shet up, you little bum," Mr.
But not if you get into all sorts of bum places w " "Why, look here, Morty " " with me.... However, I'll think it over. Let's not talk about it till to-morrow." "Oh, please do think it over, Morty, old man, won't you? And to-night you'll let me take you to a music-hall, won't you?" "Uh yes," Morton hesitated. A music-hall not mere vaudeville! Mr.
Ned accepted the invitation eagerly and sat down by the child. The face was dark and slender, the eyebrows turned up a trifle at the outer comers. "Is it Mike III., or is it the prince?" he was asking himself when the boy awoke and sat up in bed with a jerk. "What's comin' off here?" he demanded, rubbing his sleepy eyes. "What kind of a bum game is this? I want my daddy."
"Oh, I guess it got done all right. Some one had to do it. We can't pay him for work that some one else does." "Say, don't try to pull that stuff," Sheener protested. "As long as his work is done, you ain't got any kick. This guy has got to have a job, or he'll go bust, quick. It's all that keeps his feet on the ground. If he didn't think he was earning his living, he'd go on the bum in a minute."
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