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Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams. At our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
Picking our teeth with our finger, like a Chicago bummer, and pulling our handkerchief out of our pistol pocket and blowing our nose like a thirty-two pounder, just as we had heard a Chicago fellow do, we handed the man fifty cents, winked a couple of times and started to go by. The tobacco sign standing there said, "twenty-five cents more, please."
'Scotland Yard, I said, 'the home of the police. Lord bless you, there can't be no harm in that. Ye've only got to ring up Scotland Yard I'll give you the number and give the message to Mr Macgillivray. He's the head bummer of all the bobbies. 'That sounds a bit of all right, he said. 'The old man 'e won't be back for 'alf an hour, nor the sergeant neither. Let's see your quid though.
He's down, old Beau is, sence the time he owned his blooded pacer and dined with the Corps Diplomatique; Beau's down sence then; but don't call the old feller hard names. We take it back, don't we? we take them words back?" "There's a angel somewhere," said Lowndes Cleburn, "even in a Washington bummer, which responds to a little chap on crutches with a clear voice.
He said that all you had to do when you come out from supper was to look like a bummer, or "traveling man," hand the door-keeper fifty cents and wink twice with the left eye, and he would pass you right out, as though you had paid seventy-five cents.
Old Peterkin, however, whom Frank in his soliloquy, had designated a canal bummer, had become a rich man, and was resolved to show that he knew what was au fait for the occasion; a new suit throughout, in the very latest style, was in progress of making for him, and he had been heard to say that 'Tracy should have his vote and that of fifty more of the boys to pay for his ticket to the doin's'. This speech, which was reported to Mrs.
The sigh was quite as sincere in its way, however, and after a moment of serious silence he asked about her father. Her father. What father? Whose father? What had he ever done for her? Why did the girls hate her? Come, now! What made the folks say, "Old Bummer Smith's M'liss" when she passed? Yes; oh, yes. She wished he was dead she was dead everybody was dead; and her sobs broke forth anew.
The soldiers hooted at him, and asked him all sorts of questions. "How are you, Bummer?" asked one. "Did you pay your tailors with the money you stole?" asked another. "Your coat puckers under the arms and wrinkles in the back," said another. "He felt so big they had to hoop him to keep him from bursting," remarked one, who remembered how pompous Philip had been.
After a time Krafft returned in company with a slouching, drink-sodden bummer of powerful build and lowering mien, the remains of a forceful personality. This individual shambled along in the wake of the dapper little Krafft quite meekly and submissively. "Here you are," said the latter briskly, and with a sort of nonchalant authority.
"God bless you!" cried the captain, and stood silent. "Herrick," he added with a smile, "I believe I'd have died in my tracks if you'd said No!" And Herrick, looking at the man, half believed so also. "And now we'll go break it to the bummer," said Davis. "I wonder how he'll take it," said Herrick. "Him? Jump at it!" was the reply.
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